[Python-Dev] BDFL ruling request: should we block forever waiting for high-quality random bits? (original) (raw)
Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu Jun 9 13:14:50 EDT 2016
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 12:39:00PM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:
There are three options for what do with os.urandom by default:
* Allow it to silently return data that may or may not be cryptographically secure based on what the state of the urandom pool initialization looks like.
Just to be clear, this is only an option on Linux, right? All the other major platforms block, whatever we decide to do on Linux. Including Windows?
-- Steve
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