STINNER Victor added the comment: > "early" is not correct: it's late in fact, only when the desktop is opened. I > should use GPEDIT.MSC to start a task before the desktop, but this command > doesn't seem to be available on my Windows 8?
Oh, I found how to start a task before the user login, and os.urandom() still works: it produces 16 bytes immediatly (in 0.0 second). As FreeBSD, I'm not sure that Windows is really impacted by the issue #26839. Latest article about Windows RNG: http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/419 "Cryptanalysis of the Random Number Generator of the Windows Operating System" (2007) by Leo Dorrendorf and Zvi Gutterman and Benny Pinkas See also "Where does a Hyper-V guest get its entropy when generating a certificate authority key pair?": http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/51538/where-does-a-hyper-v-guest-get-its-entropy-when-generating-a-certificate-authori ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27266> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
