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Author martin.panter
Recipients Lukasa, dstufft, georg.brandl, larry, martin.panter, ned.deily, steven.daprano, vstinner
Date 2016-06-16.11:01:23
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Here is a possible patch for 3.5+ based on my modest understanding of the concerns about insecure results and blocking. I hope that my wording is clear, couldn’t be confused with Linux’s /dev/random blocking and running out of fresh entropy, etc.

I also tried to make it clearer what APIs are used in what circumstances. It is not just Linux: we also call getrandom() on Solaris, because its getentropy() is not good enough.
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