must be used instead,
because it will block until the entropy pool is initialized.
.PP
-If a seed file is saved across reboots as recommended below (all major
-Linux distributions have done this since 2000 at least), the output is
+If a seed file is saved across reboots as recommended below,
+the output is
cryptographically secure against attackers without local root access as
soon as it is reloaded in the boot sequence, and perfectly adequate for
network encryption session keys.
+(All major Linux distributions have saved the seed file across reboots
+since 2000 at least.)
Since reads from
.I /dev/random
may block, users will usually want to open it in nonblocking mode