Message267924
| Author | dstufft |
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| Recipients | Theodore Tso, dstufft, larry, vstinner |
| Date | 2016-06-08.22:58:18 |
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| Message-id | <1465426698.15.0.0251470979719.issue27266@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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I think a new function is a bad idea TBH, os.urandom provides 99% of the right interface on Linux, and 100% of the right interface on other OSes and there is a lot of code out there using os.urandom for it's security properties, and a lot of people educating users to use os.urandom for security sensitive tasks. All of a sudden going, "wait! You actually want Y" is not going to make anything more clear, especially since the difference in behavior only matters in an edge case. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2016-06-08 22:58:18 | dstufft | set | recipients: + dstufft, vstinner, larry, Theodore Tso |
| 2016-06-08 22:58:18 | dstufft | set | messageid: <1465426698.15.0.0251470979719.issue27266@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| 2016-06-08 22:58:18 | dstufft | link | issue27266 messages |
| 2016-06-08 22:58:18 | dstufft | create | |