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Comment by Dylan16807

7 years ago

The most pragmatic explanation is that if 128 or 256 bits of random could run out, the cryptography underlying almost everything we do online would be unsound. If you trust those crypto systems to take a sufficient seed and stretch it, why don't you trust the OS RNG to do so?

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