Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > However, I'm not sure of the legitimacy of replacement suitable for > cryptographic use `os.urandom` on fast pseudo-random > `random.getrandbits`. Especially for applications that need to generate > a lot of uuids.
Agreed. urandom() is supposed to incorporate "real" random, while getrandbits() uses a PRNG. Also, as the OP shows, it's easy to inject your own random source: >>> grb = "uuid.UUID(int=random.getrandbits(128), version=4)" if you really need the speed. ---------- nosy: +pitrou stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12986> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
