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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> The advantage of that -- and I have to admit I don't know if it will
> ever matter in practice -- is that using an actual PRNG:
>
> a) is less likely to get into pathological capture behaviors.
> b) doesn't make people think later that there is something magic to the
>    arbitrary chosen numbers.

My gut feeling agrees with you that both are likely to be true; these are
good points.

Christian, what do you think?