Donald Stufft added the comment: No we should not use /dev/random (or GRND_RANDOM(. It's numbers are not "more random" than /dev/urandom outside of the narrow window of prior to /dev/urandom being fully seeded. In fact, on Linux both /dev/urandom and /dev/random use the exact same CSPRNG the only difference is that /dev/random does some snake oil to try and guess "how much random" is left (which experts widely agree is a load of manure) and will block randomly (pun intended) throughout the running of the system whenever it's snakeoil decides that it's "random is running low".
I know what the manpage says, it's basically an urban myth, unchanged largely because of political pressure ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27297> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
