Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 09:40:40 AM

Seriously though, why isn't an RNG generating true random results, and if it isn't, which opens up a philosophical question, why does the TRNG, indeed, generate true randomness? To be precise, urandom is a Cryptographically Secure Pseudorandom Number Generator (CSPRNG), and to be honest, I'm a complete noob when it comes to this field, but I somewhat agree with this perspective.

The issue with this (besides the slight argument from authority) is that it's a little bit like the issue of 'n-th generation PoS blockchain' - if you're building sophisticated, fancy stuff on top of a bad foundation, you won't get the best results and will always be restricted by the limits of your foundation. PRNG is only pseudo-random and doesn't use any 'real' source of entropy; just algorithms that try to get as close as possible to that. Sure, they're well researched and gradually improved in decades of research, but they remain 'pseudo'-random.

Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator

A [PRNG] is an algorithm for generating a sequence of numbers whose properties approximate the properties of sequences of random numbers. The PRNG-generated sequence is not truly random, because it is completely determined by an initial value, called the PRNG's seed [...].

Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator

A [...] true random number generator (TRNG) is a device that generates random numbers from a physical process, rather than by means of an algorithm. Such devices are often based on microscopic phenomena that generate low-level, statistically random "noise" signals, such as thermal noise, the photoelectric effect, involving a beam splitter, and other quantum phenomena. These stochastic processes are, in theory, completely unpredictable for as long as an equation governing such phenomena is unknown or uncomputable, and the theory's assertions of unpredictability are subject to experimental test. This is in contrast to the paradigm of pseudo-random number generation commonly implemented in computer programs.