[Python-Dev] BDFL ruling request: should we block forever waiting for high-quality random bits? (original) (raw)
Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Thu Jun 16 11:07:04 EDT 2016
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016, at 10:04, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Jun 16, 2016, at 09:51 AM, Random832 wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 16, 2016, at 04:03, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> If we can guarantee that os.urandom() will never block or raise an >> exception when only poor entropy is available, then it may be indeed >> indistinguishably backward compatible for most if not all cases. > >Why can't we exclude cases when only poor entropy is available from >"most if not all cases"? Because if it blocks or raises a new exception on poor entropy it's an API break.
Yes, but in only very rare cases. Which as I just said makes it backwards compatible for "most" cases.
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