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by flaviu1 4350 days ago
What if you want reproducible random numbers, such as in, I dunno, AES? That limitation would prevent any sort of decrypting things.
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That's not what tptacek means when he says "[user space] CSPRNG", and is more appropriately called a keystream generator, not a CSPRNG, and the input is more appropriately called a key, not a seed.