Nick Coghlan added the comment:
One request I'd make in these discussions is that we avoid using the term
"block" - it makes people think of the /dev/random behaviour (i.e. blocking
intermittently and unhelpfully), rather than the usually-desired "wait for
sufficient entropy on system startup" behaviour.
I'd also request that we keep in mind that any Linux user always remains free
to write the 3-line utility function:
def read_urandom(num_bytes):
with open('/dev/urandom', 'rb') as urandom:
return urandom.read(num_bytes)
If they want to get precisely the Linux /dev/urandom semantics, and not a
Python level abstraction that provides the same kinds of assurances offered by
other *nix platforms.
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