Message 267825 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

On 2016-06-08 11:39, STINNER Victor wrote:

STINNER Victor added the comment:

no-urandom-by-default.diff uses a very weak source of entropy for random.Random :-( I'm fighting against weak sources of entropy since many years...

It is totally fine to init the MT of random.random() from a weak entropy source. Just keep in mind that a Mersenne Twister is not a CPRNG. There is simply no reason why you want to init a MT from a CPRNG.