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Author	loewis
Recipients	Arfrever, christian.heimes, loewis, pitrou, rhettinger, vstinner
Date	2012-06-28.05:54:50
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<20120628075449.Horde.nsEAfUlCcOxP6-Gp3T3WMyA@webmail.df.eu>
In-reply-to	<1340840309.19.0.624669030294.issue15206@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> a) my patch handles the fork() issue correctly If the system has urandom, yes. > b) if it's a good idea to try SystemRandom first Certainly. > c) a backport to 2.6, 2.7, 3.1 and 3.2 is required > and perhaps Cannot backport to 2.6 and 3.1; it's not a security issue. > d) if I should open another ticket to work on a general solution for > the RNG + fork() issue. I'm not quite sure what a solution could be, or wether there is an issue in the first place, so -0.

> a) my patch handles the fork() issue correctly

If the system has urandom, yes.

> b) if it's a good idea to try SystemRandom first

Certainly.

> c) a backport to 2.6, 2.7, 3.1 and 3.2 is required
> and perhaps

Cannot backport to 2.6 and 3.1; it's not a security issue.

> d) if I should open another ticket to work on a general solution for  
> the RNG + fork() issue.

I'm not quite sure what a solution could be, or wether there is
an issue in the first place, so -0.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2012-06-28 05:54:52	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, rhettinger, pitrou, vstinner, christian.heimes, Arfrever
2012-06-28 05:54:51	loewis	link	issue15206 messages
2012-06-28 05:54:50	loewis	create