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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]
+
+# `/dev/random`
+
+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`.