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Fat Rand: How many lines do you need to generate a...
One reason to care about this is that random number generators are a very lucrative target to attack for security services. See for example ECDual
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/767.pdf
or Linus Torvalds' answer about NSA approaching him about a backdoor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwRYyWn7BEo
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