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> Turns out memory can play tricks on everyone: we now know they were instead generated with the POSIX-standard drand48 random number generator.

Or he lied to obfuscate the origin.

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it would have been beneficial to disclose the origin.

lying for obfuscation purposes makes zero sense given what we know now.

Why?

To demonstrate it was generated with nothing up the sleeve.

I don't see how this demonstrates that. The seed could have been generated at a specific point in time, resulting in a specific value, which may be useful in some way. How is it any different from just defining a seed manually?

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