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Author dstufft
Recipients Colm Buckley, Lukasa, alex, doko, dstufft, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date 2016-06-07.11:36:17
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I agree with Alex here.

The documentation of ``os.urandom`` states: Return a string of n random bytes suitable for cryptographic use. However the old behavior prior to using the ``getrandom()`` call and the behavior with this patch makes that documentation a lie. It's now a string of n random bytes that may or may not be suitable for cryptographic use, but we have no idea which one it is.

No where in the documentation of ``os.urandom`` does it ever promise it will not block. In fact, on systems like FreeBSD where their /dev/urandom is better than Linuxes it always blocked on start up because that's just the way their /dev/urandom works.
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2016-06-07 11:36:17dstufftsetrecipients: + dstufft, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, larry, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, Lukasa, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley
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