Christian Heimes added the comment: I don't get it either. urandom is perfectly fine. I showed that urandom is just a bit slower than SSL_rand().
How about we generalize SystemRandom so users can implement a custom RNG class wby providing a method rng(amount) -> bytes? Antoine Pitrou <rep...@bugs.python.org> schrieb: > >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 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
