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Detecting PRNG Use from Output

Question: Is there a way to detect the use of a PRNG strictly from observing the output provided by an application? Background: During an audit of a key generating algorithm that I knew was based on ...
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PRNG: Does combining insecure algos help?

Reading about how insecure PHP's rand function is, I was wondering if it helps to combine random functions. The suggested function there, openssl_random_pseudo_bytes, can also be cryptographically ...