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by kvakil 3094 days ago
No, the reason you aren't supposed to use it to generate cryptographic keys is because it's public: so it effectively provides no (or nearly no) entropy. It's the same reason you shouldn't use the current time as a seed for a PRNG.

NIST Beacon is more intended for things like lottery drawings, where you want to prove that you're generating the random numbers in an unbiased manner.