Message 216859 - Python tracker

Message216859

Author	pitrou
Recipients	alex, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen, josh.r, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date	2014-04-19.14:05:38
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> It was in the list of security fixes Alex and Donald wanted to reduce > vulnerabilities in 2.x network services, and Guido was OK with backporting > it. What security issue is there exactly? os.urandom() does a similar thing in 2.7 and 3.x (it reads from /dev/urandom).

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> It was in the list of security fixes Alex and Donald wanted to reduce
> vulnerabilities in 2.x network services, and Guido was OK with backporting
> it.

What security issue is there exactly? os.urandom() does a similar thing
in 2.7 and 3.x (it reads from  /dev/urandom).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-04-19 14:05:38	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, ncoghlan, janssen, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, alex, dstufft, josh.r
2014-04-19 14:05:38	pitrou	link	issue21305 messages
2014-04-19 14:05:38	pitrou	create