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Author doko
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 2016-06-07.18:51:52
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On 07.06.2016 16:47, Christian Heimes wrote:
> 
> Christian Heimes added the comment:
> 
> PSRT VETO!
> 
> In the light of the upcoming release 3.5.2 I'm now putting on my PSRT hat (Python Security Response Team) and proclaim a veto against any and all changes to os.urandom(). The security properties of os.urandom() must not be modified or reduced compared to 3.5.1. Please restore the behavior of os.urandom().

So you are intentionally accepting a new vector for DoS attacks, and calling
this non-reduced security?
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2016-06-07 18:51:52dokosetrecipients: + doko, lemburg, rhettinger, vstinner, larry, christian.heimes, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, dstufft, Lukasa, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley
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