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by zeveb 3947 days ago
> Fortuna rejects entropy estimation, and tries to build a CSPRNG that is secure without needing estimates

What really annoys me is that a Fortuna-based CSPRNG was contributed to Linux eleven years ago this month, but died on the vine, IIRC because the Linux kernel team were so fond of the entropy-estimation approach.