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> However, a flaw in a RNG that allows a third party (hello NSA) to break cryptography - you cannot defend from that, you can't even detect it.

You always put bad randomness through enough calls of one way functions that reversing them is computationally infeasible for your adversary for the lifetime of the secret.




Deterministic functions do not increase entropy, bad entropy in is bad entropy out.




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