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Living in a state of sin



	Don't use PRNGs for one time pads. To quote Don Knuth, anyone
	using software methods to generate random numbers "is living in
	a state of sin."

Knuth quoted John von Neumann:

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits
is, of course, in a state of sin." (1951)