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Author vstinner
Recipients Lukasa, docs@python, georg.brandl, larry, martin.panter, ncoghlan, ned.deily, steven.daprano, vstinner
Date 2016-09-07.03:01:16
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I dislike urandom-doc.v2.patch. There is no need to worry all users. Just be explicit and explain that the issue is specific to Linux and explain when it occurs: before the entropy pool is filled *and* if the system was not able yet to write enough entropy on disk, this thing:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0524/#load-entropy-from-disk-at-boot
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Date User Action Args
2016-09-07 03:01:16vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, georg.brandl, ncoghlan, larry, ned.deily, steven.daprano, docs@python, martin.panter, Lukasa
2016-09-07 03:01:16vstinnersetmessageid: <1473217276.58.0.430228219992.issue27292@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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