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Author christian.heimes
Recipients christian.heimes, dstufft, larry, ned.deily, steven.daprano, vstinner
Date 2016-06-11.10:45:33
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Thx Steven.

tl;dr The OS' / Kernel's CSPRNG is safe-to-use as long as one uses the correct API: getrandom(flags=0) on Linux, getentropy() on BSD, CryptGenRandom() on Windows.

Myths about Linux's urandom: http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

Example why user-space CSPRNG are bad: https://gist.github.com/tiran/a9ba8c51cc7d1b75d3bc1d3f24411b4c
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