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This is a security feature, and we thus shouldn't derive the random MACs
from a potentially guessable source. MAC addresses are after all facing
to the outside, and can be interacted with from untrusted environments.
Hence, let's generate them the same way as we generate UUIDs: from
getrandom() or /dev/urandom, and optionally with RDRAND if that's
supported.
RDRAND should be fine, since this is not cryptographic key material, but
ultimately public information. We just want to make sure conflicts are
not likely.
Previously we'd generate the MACs via rand(), which means given the
short seed they are a little bit too guessable, making collisions too
likely. See #14355 in particular.
Fixes: #14355
(Note that #14355 was already fixed by
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