[New-bugs-announce] [issue27293] Summarize issues related to urandom, getrandom etc in secrets documentation

[Steven D'Aprano]

New submission from Steven D'Aprano:

Write some documentation for the ``secrets`` module summarizing the issues relating to /dev/[u]random, getrandom, etc. There's a lot of confusion about these issues, and the web contains a lot of misinformation, so being able to point to the secrets docs for a summary will be useful for further discussions, and to help programmers pick the right solution.

I know the Python docs cannot be the definitive source of information about OS features, but they can provide enough of a summary to allow users to make informed decisions.

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assignee: steven.daprano
components: Documentation
messages: 268206
nosy: christian.heimes, dstufft, haypo, larry, ned.deily, steven.daprano
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Summarize issues related to urandom, getrandom etc in secrets documentation
versions: Python 3.6

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