$RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

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Subject	$RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator
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'brand' in variables.c is comparable in size to ChaCha20 and ChaCha20
is not completely broken:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20

Could we please replace 'brand' with ChaCha20?


/Ole

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