> This is presumably about making the output of the random number generator harder to predict. Randomly deciding to add an extra byte of entropy only adds 1 bi

> This is presumably about making the output of the random number generator harder to predict. Randomly deciding to add an extra byte of entropy only adds 1 bit of entropy. Adding the extra byte always adds 8 bits of entropy. There is no cryptographic reason to do this. It is just to break assumptions about the API.