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Board Electrum
Re: Random Number Seed
by
Abdussamad
on 15/11/2022, 14:14:34 UTC
Please read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5480131/will-python-systemrandom-os-urandom-always-have-enough-entropy-for-good-crypto

/dev/urandom can indeed run out of entropy if it is called repeatedly.
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Sorry for bumping the old thread.
So does that mean say i repeatedly generate seeds say 100 seeds one after the other before finally deciding the choose the seed for my wallet. Does that make the seed less secure?

no it doesn't. /dev/urandom can generate unlimited cryptographically secure random numbers. it doesn't run out.