Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Seriously, why are we obsessed with performance when talking about a security feature? Did anyone *actually* complain about urandom() being too slow (ok, someone complained about it eating file descriptors... :-))?
The question is whether OpenSSL's random generator produces better randomness than the system one: apparently it's not the case under Linux, how about other systems? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18811> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com