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by agwa 4480 days ago
The same types of cryptographic algorithms used in SSL, PGP, etc. are also used to securely expand a small bit of entropy into an endless stream of good randomness. It's intellectually inconsistent to not trust these algorithms when used in an RNG, but to trust them when used in SSL, PGP, etc. See the contradiction with stressing the importance of using random, not urandom, when generating SSL/PGP keys?