I see the importance is still "undecided".  Here is something that may
help:

Message from Rich Salz, 12/22/2016 10:06 AM:
> Feel free to quote me:
>       This is very important.
[...]
>  Rich Salz
>    Senior Architect, Akamai Technologies
>    Member, OpenSSL Dev Team

High-quality randomly-distributed numbers are needed for every aspect of 
computer
security, including long-term keys, session keys, nonces, initialization 
vectors,
ASLR, et cetera.

Newly-installed systems need randomness just as much as other systems.

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