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  1.   o Minor features (security):
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  2.     - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
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  3.       seeding the PRNG.  When we want to generate important keys, instead
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  4.       of using system entropy directly, hash it with the PRNG stream.
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  5.       This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS entropy
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  6.       implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
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