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**** THIS PROJECT IS DEPRECATED **** As of Linux 5.19, /dev/random is just as good as /dev/urandom, so it is generally no longer necessary to force programs to use /dev/urandom. If you do need to force programs to use /dev/urandom for some reason, you can use ldpreload-forceurandom.so from <https://github.com/AGWA/ldpreload>. Original README below: force-urandom is a tool to force programs to use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random, since /dev/urandom on Linux is secure whereas /dev/random is stupidly slow: https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ Just put force-urandom in front of the command you want to run. For example, to generate a GPG key in a reasonable amount of time, you could run: force-urandom gpg --gen-key force-urandom works by LD_PRELOADing a shared library which intercepts open calls and replaces a /dev/random argument with /dev/urandom. To compile, run `make`.
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