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Re:Convert standard Geiger counter to RNG by tptacek on Monday November 13, 2023 @05:38PM (#38256356)
I mean this is true, but it's also true that every cipher can be trivially broken if its key leaks. Yes: you want to rekey regularly (and that's not complicated). But whatever circumstance allowed your state to leak in the first place is most probably repeatable by an attacker, so you likely have much bigger problems than PRNG design.

If you want to snipe at people for freelancing their own CSPRNGs, the better point to make is that people should be relying on the OS's secure random generator to the exclusion of everything else; there are systems security reasons to avoid userland CSPRNGs.

But I think for the most part these are just people enjoying working out how a CSPRNG works. Which, mazel tov!

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