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Well, supposing one wanted "true" randomness and had access to a source of such, but still cared to be efficient about using it.


Sure, but in practice I think we'd be hard pressed to find someone with such stringent requirements.

For all practical purposes, using your entropy stream to seed ChaCha is more than good enough. Want something with a proof? Seed a Blum Blum Shub generator.




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