domness than required. In this case the missing randomness will be obtained by pulling random input from the trusted entropy sources.</p>

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<p>NOTE: Manual reseeding is *not allowed* in FIPS mode, because [NIST SP-800-90Ar1] mandates that entropy *shall not* be provided by the consuming application for instantiation (Section 9.1) or reseeding (Section 9.2). For that reason, the <i>randomness</i> argument is ignored and the random bytes provided by the <a href="../man3/RAND_add.html">RAND_add(3)<