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Author vstinner
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Date 2011-08-30.14:41:17
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A salt doesn't need to be strong random bits, but I'm not sure that Mersenne Twister is a best candidate to generate salt. It would be nice to use ssl.RAND_pseudo_bytes() if available.

Problem: implement random.choice() from a generator generating bytes => see issue #12754.
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