[Python-Dev] PEP 506 secrets module (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 05:33:59 EDT 2015

2015-10-20 11:11 GMT+02:00 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

Folks wanting to simulate die rolls should be using the random module rather than the secrets module anyway,

Hum, why? Dices are used in Casino where security matters because it costs money.

A bad API can be more likely misused and introduce security vulnerability. The C rand() API is a good example: 1+rand()%6 is not uniform...

Victor