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go1.26: remove crypto/rand.Reader argument from all keygen and signing calls #8540

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As of go1.26, all the cryptography functions that we use will ignore their rand.Reader argument and use a secure internal source of randomness instead. We always just pass the default global rand.Reader, so we should be able to replace that with nil at all callsites.

Read more: golang/go#70942, https://antonz.org/go-1-26/#crypto-reader

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