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It is very easy for an uncorrelated stream of bits to be terribly insecure: they simply have to be seeded from the same source.

Case in point: The b0rked Debian OpenSSL RNG would certainly pass any statistical tests. But it still turned out to have only something on the order of 32767 unique sequences, i.e., 15 bits of entropy.



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