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Is it wrong to link /dev/random to /dev/urandom on Linux?

See Myths about urandom, there is no known attack on /dev/urandom that would not also be an attack on /dev/random. The main problem that a Linux system has is when it cloned and run as several VMs without resetting the saved entropy pool after the cloning. That is a corner case that tangential to what you want.

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