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Even so, a good RNG will make attempts to verify the quality of the entropy. For example, Intel's RNG will statistically observe bit patterns from their RNG. Eg, it fills up a FIFO and checks for the counts of certain bit patterns. If they aren't sufficiently random, it will throw away the data. Even if they dont have sufficient RNG data, unless you can predict how a PRNG is seeded it should be safe for quite some time without new true entropy.



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