This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author alex
Recipients alex, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen, josh.r, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2014-04-19.14:34:59
SpamBayes Score -1.0
Marked as misclassified Yes
Message-id <1397918099.8.0.212907016537.issue21305@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to
Content
It's not a security issue per-se, but if you're doing many small reads, there's such an enormous performance and scalability difference that if users run into an issue, they're likely to work around it by using a non-CS PRNG, and compromising their application security.
History
Date User Action Args
2014-04-19 14:34:59alexsetrecipients: + alex, ncoghlan, janssen, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, dstufft, josh.r
2014-04-19 14:34:59alexsetmessageid: <1397918099.8.0.212907016537.issue21305@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014-04-19 14:34:59alexlinkissue21305 messages
2014-04-19 14:34:59alexcreate