Message267628
| Author | dstufft |
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| Recipients | Colm Buckley, Lukasa, alex, doko, dstufft, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane |
| Date | 2016-06-07.11:36:17 |
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| Message-id | <1465299377.41.0.45258059526.issue26839@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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I agree with Alex here. The documentation of ``os.urandom`` states: Return a string of n random bytes suitable for cryptographic use. However the old behavior prior to using the ``getrandom()`` call and the behavior with this patch makes that documentation a lie. It's now a string of n random bytes that may or may not be suitable for cryptographic use, but we have no idea which one it is. No where in the documentation of ``os.urandom`` does it ever promise it will not block. In fact, on systems like FreeBSD where their /dev/urandom is better than Linuxes it always blocked on start up because that's just the way their /dev/urandom works. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2016-06-07 11:36:17 | dstufft | set | recipients: + dstufft, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, larry, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, Lukasa, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley |
| 2016-06-07 11:36:17 | dstufft | set | messageid: <1465299377.41.0.45258059526.issue26839@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| 2016-06-07 11:36:17 | dstufft | link | issue26839 messages |
| 2016-06-07 11:36:17 | dstufft | create | |