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Author dstufft
Recipients Colm Buckley, Lukasa, alex, christian.heimes, doko, dstufft, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date 2016-06-07.13:51:51
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> With the greatest respect, you're talking about introducing multi-minute delays into the startup times of hundreds of millions of systems, regardless of whether they have a proximate requirement for cryptographically-secure RNG sources.

No I'm not. I'm talking about implementing this fix so that it *only* affects the Python interpreter start up, in particular things like SipHash initialization, instead of affecting the security of every other user of os.urandom.
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2016-06-07 13:51:51dstufftsetrecipients: + dstufft, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, larry, christian.heimes, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, Lukasa, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley
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