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by zuzun 932 days ago
The sponge design of SHA-3 makes it a CSPRNG basically. You can keep draining it after you fed the data in.
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You can do something similar with any cryptographic hash; just feed a (say) 128 bit counter through the hash function, and collect the outputs.
That's a great poin, even better.