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Author pitrou
Recipients christian.heimes, neologix, pitrou, rhettinger, vstinner
Date 2013-08-23.09:15:05
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Seriously, why are we obsessed with performance when talking about a security feature? Did anyone *actually* complain about urandom() being too slow (ok, someone complained about it eating file descriptors... :-))?

The question is whether OpenSSL's random generator produces better randomness than the system one: apparently it's not the case under Linux, how about other systems?
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2013-08-23 09:15:05pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, rhettinger, vstinner, christian.heimes, neologix
2013-08-23 09:15:05pitrousetmessageid: <1377249305.3.0.394670607995.issue18811@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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