https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/seccng/cng-portal ?
On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, 23:18 Dan Stromberg, <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 8:37 AM Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> > wrote: > >> On 7/12/2021 4:11 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: >> > It looks like CPython could do better on Windows: SystemRandom (because >> > of os.urandom()) is good on Linux and mac, but on Windows they use the >> > CryptGenRandom deprecated API.... >> > >> > Supporting detail: >> > >> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wincrypt/nf-wincrypt-cryptgenrandom >> > < >> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wincrypt/nf-wincrypt-cryptgenrandom >> > >> > >> > Should I open an issue? >> >> Please do, but note that the API is only deprecated because it was not >> very extensible and the new API is much more comple... er... extensible. >> >> There's nothing wrong with the randomness from the function. It'll be >> using the new API under the covers. So this is an enhancement, not a >> security issue, and should only target 3.11. >> > > I created https://bugs.python.org/issue44611 for this. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/C3QBAG3YHBJSJQ5MO32TFN6R6PBYKEKD/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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