Weaknesses
In 2004, Landon Curt Noll, Simon Cooper, and Mel Pleasant tested a variety of random number generators, including the /dev/random implementations in FreeBSD 5.2.1, Linux 2.4.21-20, Solaris 8 patch 108528-18, and Mac OS X 10.3.5. They indicated that none of these /dev/random implementations were cryptographically secure because their outputs had uniformity flaws.
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