Hi:

Currently we always use stdrng in interrupt context, which doesn't
work very well with DRBG which cannot be called there.

We could change DRBG but it really does a lot of work (e.g., a
reseed) in its generation function and doing it in interrupt context
would be bad.

In fact, the only reason we were doing this in interrupt context
is to conserver entropy, which is a non-issue with DRBG.

So this series changes all the RNG users to only use the RNG in
process context, and then makes DRBG the default RNG.

Cheers,
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