http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/47598/why-doesnt-openssl-use-dev-random-dev-urandom-directly

The more I think about PRNGs, the worse the "no-input, strictly
deterministic" ones seem for crypto.

Apart from simulations and some software testing purposes, I can't
think of any major cases where repeatable "random" bytestreams are
really useful.  Most of the time when crypto asks for random bits,
it means unpredictable, not identically distributed.
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