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The answer is in the link. Sixth paragraph, right above the horizontal rule. Couldn't be clearer.



To those wondering:

  (Incidentally, none of this affects Ed25519. The spec for that system includes its own idea of how you should do deterministic nonce generation - completely different again, naturally - and we did it that way rather than our way, so that we could use the existing test vectors.)




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