Christian Heimes added the comment: On 2016-06-07 16:49, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote: > This gives people a clear choice and doesn't cause people > to have to reconsider using the random module or wait for > Python hash randomization to initialize itself when using > Python during VM/container/system startup. > > I don't really appreciate this approach to break Python in > cloud setups just because some entropy pool is not initialized, > which only a tiny fraction of users care about. It doesn't > make Python land a better place.
VM and cloud setup without a proper CPRNG source are plain broken. True fact! Secure entropy sources are a fundamental resource for all modern applications. Please start treating CPRNG like RAM, CPU or disks. You wouldn't add a workaround for broken CPU instructions to math.c or semi-functional network card to socket.c, would you? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26839> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
