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Being able to call getRandomValues from HTTP endpoints doesn't specifically break a password extension unless it was somehow serving over HTTP and had its Javascript modified.

It doesn't mandate entropy requirements, probably because that's a somewhat contentious measure that not all OSes provide information about (see also: the long and tedious arguments about merging /dev/random and /dev/urandom). As long as the browsers use the underlying OS primitives, it will be fine.

Browsers do a thousand things essential for security that are far harder than providing cryptographically random numbers, and I highly doubt they'll screw it up.



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