Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I understand correctly that you are using urandom as a random > generator I wouldn't trust too much on this performance. Urandom > uses the systemwide entropy-pool. If other programs need this pool > too, your performance can drop spectaculary.
No the idea is that once there's enough entropy in the pool to make one encryption key (say 128 bits), the output of /dev/urandom is computationally indistinguishable from random output no matter how much data you read from it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
