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> This behavior is available in Linux with the getrandom() syscall, but perhaps GnuPG hasn't updated to use it?

GnuPG has been using getrandom() where available for over a year[1]. Obviously some distros may not yet have updated to a recent enough version, but it (and OpenSSL) are no longer among the offenders that cause /dev/random blocking hangs.

[1] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2018q4/0004...



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