Message267932
One request I'd make in these discussions is that we avoid using the term "block" - it makes people think of the /dev/random behaviour (i.e. blocking intermittently and unhelpfully), rather than the usually-desired "wait for sufficient entropy on system startup" behaviour.
I'd also request that we keep in mind that any Linux user always remains free to write the 3-line utility function:
def read_urandom(num_bytes):
with open('/dev/urandom', 'rb') as urandom:
return urandom.read(num_bytes)
If they want to get precisely the Linux /dev/urandom semantics, and not a Python level abstraction that provides the same kinds of assurances offered by other *nix platforms. |
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2016-06-08 23:46:49 | ncoghlan | set | recipients:
+ ncoghlan, lemburg, vstinner, christian.heimes, alex, dstufft, Lukasa |
2016-06-08 23:46:49 | ncoghlan | set | messageid: <1465429609.74.0.0532338312882.issue27250@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2016-06-08 23:46:49 | ncoghlan | link | issue27250 messages |
2016-06-08 23:46:49 | ncoghlan | create | |
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