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Author	loewis
Recipients	barry, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, gvanrossum, loewis, pitrou
Date	2012-01-03.22:17:04
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Message-id	<1325629025.47.0.991947240587.issue13704@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I disagree with that approach, basically because I disagree that we need a C implementation of MT. Platforms that don't provide /dev/urandom will just have to be less secure. Using the current time (in milliseconds if available) plus the current pid ought to be good enough as a random seed.

I disagree with that approach, basically because I disagree that we need a C implementation of MT. Platforms that don't provide /dev/urandom will just have to be less secure. Using the current time (in milliseconds if available) plus the current pid ought to be good enough as a random seed.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-01-03 22:17:05	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, gvanrossum, barry, georg.brandl, pitrou, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson
2012-01-03 22:17:05	loewis	set	messageid: <1325629025.47.0.991947240587.issue13704@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-01-03 22:17:04	loewis	link	issue13704 messages
2012-01-03 22:17:04	loewis	create