This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author vstinner
Recipients Lukasa, alex, christian.heimes, dstufft, lemburg, vstinner
Date 2016-06-08.22:34:33
SpamBayes Score -1.0
Marked as misclassified Yes
Message-id <1465425273.41.0.252223079491.issue27250@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to
Content
> Should this ticket be named "Add os.random()" ? After all, blocking in case of missing entropy is what /dev/random is all about.

In short, /dev/random must not be used :-) See:
https://haypo-notes.readthedocs.io/pep_random.html#rng-denial-of-service
History
Date User Action Args
2016-06-08 22:34:33vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, lemburg, christian.heimes, alex, dstufft, Lukasa
2016-06-08 22:34:33vstinnersetmessageid: <1465425273.41.0.252223079491.issue27250@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2016-06-08 22:34:33vstinnerlinkissue27250 messages
2016-06-08 22:34:33vstinnercreate