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Subject: Re: Problems with CSPRNG in wrapper.c
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<rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:

> First, I was not aware that csprng was a git dependency ...

You can choose from implementations that depend on common external
libraries and system functions, but we have a fallback internal
implementation that only requires /dev/urandom.

See description for CSPRNG_METHOD in Makefile and 05cd988d (wrapper:
add a helper to generate numbers from a CSPRNG, 2022-01-17) for
additional background.