Ivan Anishchuk added the comment:

Victor, I suppose you don't happen to have a good entropy source? :) I cannot 
really stress the word "optional" enough here. And I understand why most user 
wouldn't want this. That's why I'm proposing to make it optional.

As per PEP, "The /dev/random device should only used for very specific use 
cases." and that's exactly what I'm proposing, a special option for special use 
cases. (Speaking of options, it would've been nice to have more of those, I 
would really like to have an easy way to access an entropy source directly, not 
through system PRNG, for generating keys and like. But devices and interfaces 
can be different so it's out of scope for this proposal.)

To be absolutely clear: what I'm proposing is a small improvement for linux 
users who have a good entropy source (e.g. a hardware TRNG) and specifically 
opt for this feature setting an environment variable (or by other means). 
Without affecting anyone else under any circumstances.

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