The tradeoff is that sometimes you need TRUE randomness, which is created from random events that happen in hardware. Right after systems boot, and especially in VMs distant from the hardware, enough true randomness (entropy) doesn't exist yet.
The libsodium code may be a little bit less scary than the LibreSSL one: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/src/libsodium/randombytes/sysrandom/randombytes_sysrandom.c … - There’s also one with an internal RNG: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/src/libsodium/randombytes/internal/randombytes_internal_random.c …
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I keep meaning to ask: what's the oldest Windows and Linux versions it works on?
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Also, how about QNX, VxWorks, Solaris, or z/OS? I ask because I'm writing a little text on network programming, which includes these systems as targets.
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