Message 216861 - Python tracker

Message216861

Author	pitrou
Recipients	alex, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen, josh.r, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date	2014-04-19.14:39:21
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Message-id	<1397918360.2345.12.camel@fsol>
In-reply-to	<1397918099.8.0.212907016537.issue21305@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> It's not a security issue per-se, but if you're doing many small > reads, there's such an enormous performance and scalability difference > that if users run into an issue, they're likely to work around it by > using a non-CS PRNG, and compromising their application security. Do you have any examples of this or is it just a gratuitous inference?

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> It's not a security issue per-se, but if you're doing many small
> reads, there's such an enormous performance and scalability difference
> that if users run into an issue, they're likely to work around it by
> using a non-CS PRNG, and compromising their application security.

Do you have any examples of this or is it just a gratuitous inference?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-04-19 14:39:22	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, ncoghlan, janssen, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, alex, dstufft, josh.r
2014-04-19 14:39:22	pitrou	link	issue21305 messages
2014-04-19 14:39:22	pitrou	create