Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 05:33:59 EDT 2015

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2015-10-20 11:11 GMT+02:00 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> Folks wanting to simulate die rolls should be using the random module
> rather than the secrets module anyway,

Hum, why? Dices are used in Casino where security matters because it
costs money.

A bad API can be more likely misused and introduce security
vulnerability. The C rand() API is a good example: 1+rand()%6 is not
uniform...

Victor

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