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by tptacek 3324 days ago
The embedded systems cold start entropy problem is a good point I hadn't thought about before.

Of course (not that you disagree), if you have this problem, you have it with or without NSA supercomputers!

I don't think CryptGenRandom or urandom on general-purpose computers is a viable target for this, though, regardless of how "fast" the CSPRNG is.