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@@ -12,4 +12,6 @@ is included in the section entitled
There is no random device by default as no secure implementation has been
finished yet. An easy (but very insecure) work-around is to copy a binary file
-like `/bin/bash` to `/dev/random` and `/dev/urandom`.
+like `/bin/bash` to `/dev/random` and `/dev/urandom`. A slightly more secure
+alternative is installing the `random-egd` from the `debian-ports` repository.
+