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With some schemes, like ECDSA, you can't use a larger nonce since the nonce is a field element.

In general, you shouldn't need to worry about it unless you're using a broken CSPRNG or a bad cryptography library. And some libraries will try and work around bad RNGs: https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.19.1:src/...



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