Donald Stufft added the comment: > It's just that the manpage for urandom (and in fact the comments in the > source code for /dev/random and /dev/urandom) both recommend using > /dev/random for these long-lived cryptographic keys.
It's a hedge because of the bad behavior of /dev/urandom on early boot in a situation where it's highly unlikely that the randomly blocking behavior of /dev/random is going to matter. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
