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Author vstinner
Recipients christian.heimes, vstinner
Date 2016-06-08.21:58:16
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Reading more than 256 bytes from os.urandom() is different than reading 256 bytes or less. For example, see getrandom() and getentropy() manual pages for more details.

random.Random doesn't need a very high quality entropy. The glib library only reads 128 bits from /dev/urandom to initialize the Mersenne Twister RNG for example.
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