[Cryptography] Why prefer symmetric crypto over public key crypto?

[Peter Gutmann]

zooko <zooko at zooko.com> writes:

>I agree that randomness-reuse is a major issue. Recently about 55 Bitcoin 
>were stolen by exploiting this, for example:
>
>http://emboss.github.io/blog/2013/08/21/openssl-prng-is-not-really-fork-safe/

Was that the change that was required by FIPS 140, or a different vuln?

Peter.