[tptacek]

That's obviously true, but in the most unhelpful way possible, where you introduce a complex additional topic without explaining how it doesn't validate the previous commenter's misapprehension about how "state" works in this context.

[cperciva]

I wasn't entirely sure if the previous commenter was confused or merely saying things in a confusing way. The fact is that with a small entropy pool and a leaky mechanism like RC4, you absolutely can run out of entropy.