Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: For the record, here is what "man urandom" says about random seed size:
“[...] no cryptographic primitive available today can hope to promise more than 256 bits of security, so if any program reads more than 256 bits (32 bytes) from the kernel random pool per invocation, or per reasonable reseed interval (not less than one minute), that should be taken as a sign that its cryptography is not skilfully implemented.” In that light, reading a 64 bytes seed from /dev/urandom is already a lot, and 4096 bytes is simply insane. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13703> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
