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by loup-vaillant 2165 days ago
Don't bother with elliptic curves, any stream cipher will do. We make messages indistinguishable from random with those, we might as well use them for random number generation as well.

The arc4random_buf(3) function for instance uses the Chacha20 cipher under the hood (some outdated & broken implementations may still use RC4).