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Author skrah
Recipients Colm Buckley, doko, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date 2016-06-07.10:44:50
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:01:16AM +0000, STINNER Victor wrote:
> Maybe need something like time.get_clock_info(), sys.float_info and sys.thread_info for os.urandom(): a string describing the implementation of os.urandom(). It would allow the developer to decide what to do when getrandom() is not used.

I think this is a very good idea. Just a flag for "cryptographically secure" or not.
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