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Author martin.panter
Recipients Colm Buckley, doko, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, rhettinger, socketpair, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner
Date 2016-06-06.02:29:40
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Minor thing: the patch has tabbed intentation in places rather than spaces.

As I understand it, if there is no entropy initialized, this patch will fall back to reading /dev/urandom, which will return predictable data (opposite of “random” data!). But since we take this non-strict fallback in other cases (e.g. no OS support), there is a decent argument for also taking the predictable fallback path when entropy is uninitialized.
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2016-06-06 02:29:41martin.pantersetrecipients: + martin.panter, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, larry, matejcik, ned.deily, socketpair, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley
2016-06-06 02:29:41martin.pantersetmessageid: <1465180181.26.0.33750642381.issue26839@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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