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Author pitrou
Recipients alex, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen, josh.r, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2014-04-19.14:39:21
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> 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.

Do you have any examples of this or is it just a gratuitous inference?
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2014-04-19 14:39:22pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, ncoghlan, janssen, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, benjamin.peterson, alex, dstufft, josh.r
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