[patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG

[James Youngman]

Follow-up Comment #5, patch #6797 (project coreutils):

IMO both /dev/urandom and /dev/random should be used as sources of data for
seeding PRNGs, as opposed to being used as sources of random data directly.  
My rationale for this is that even using /dev/urandom for large quantities of
data will exhaust the system's entropy pool.  


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