New submission from Raymond Hettinger: The default seeding for the random module currently used 32 bytes from urandom() to create the initial state of the random number generator. This is far less than the number of possible states 2**19937-1.
Changing the default seed to a larger number will cover the state space. This gives better security and better randomness by not using just a subset of the possible states. The downside is slightly slower default initialization. ---------- assignee: rhettinger files: better_seed.diff keywords: patch messages: 218238 nosy: rhettinger priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Better seeding for the random module type: security versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file35209/better_seed.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21470> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
