Message 195560 - Python tracker

Message195560

Author	christian.heimes
Recipients	christian.heimes, neologix, pitrou, sbt, vstinner
Date	2013-08-18.13:22:02
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Message-id	<1376832122.61.0.259675418608.issue18747@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The lastest patch mixes seconds into the time field of seed. Python 3.3+ support only NT and POSIX threads. 2.7 and 3.2 have GNU pth and other threading API but I neither have a system to test other threading libs nor the motivation to port my patch to an ancient threading library. It's not just RAND_bytes(). OpenSSL's PRNG is also used by OpenSSL internally, e.g. as entropy source for SSL/TLS handshakes. How many function do you want to patch?

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The lastest patch mixes seconds into the time field of seed.

Python 3.3+ support only NT and POSIX threads. 2.7 and 3.2 have GNU pth and other threading API but I neither have a system to test other threading libs nor the motivation to port my patch to an ancient threading library.

It's not just RAND_bytes(). OpenSSL's PRNG is also used by OpenSSL internally, e.g. as entropy source for SSL/TLS handshakes. How many function do you want to patch?

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