There is plenty of literature surrounding pseudorandom number generation
and cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generation. No need to
reinvent the wheel here. The question you should think about is whether you
think people need CSPRNG like this at compile time.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM Frederick Virchanza Gotham via
Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM Thiago Macieira wrote:
> >
> > Also one of the reasons some skeptics decided to not use the HWRNG
> > (exclusively or at all): you can't tell from the outside if the output is
> > random, AES-smoothed random, or a CTR-mode AES encryption of a
> > specific seed.
>
>
> I don't understand. If the output has no discernable patterns in it,
> then surely that's a good reason to use it? Why would that put people
> off using it?
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