Aah, but that&#x27;s the rub. The result isn&#x27;t <i>actually</i> random, it is only &quot;computationally indistinguishable&quot; (or, some lower threshold, since it is only in the last few decades of the multi-millennia history of crypto that this has been true). I&#x27;m not denying that pseudo-randomness (or even in very limited cases, real randomness) is <i>used</i> in most varients of crypto today, rather, I am suggesting that despite this, the end result is precisely the opposite: a message so highly ordered that it is &quot;computationally indistinguishable&quot;, merely masquerading as random.