STINNER Victor <vstin...@redhat.com> added the comment: I know two main use cases for random numbers:
* security: use os.urandom(), secrets and random.SystemRandom * not security: use the random module Exposing os.getentropy() seems like a new non-portable function for the first use case, security. What does it add compared to directly call os.urandom() for example? I chose to expose os.getrandom() for one very specific use case, described in the PEP 524: check if os.urandom() is going to block. On OpenBSD, os.urandom() and getentropy() does never block, so os.getentropy() seems useless to me. OpenBSD design is different: the CSRPNG is feeded from the boot loader. Or tell me if I missed something. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33528> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
