[Python-Dev] BDFL ruling request: should we block forever waiting for high-quality random bits?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 12:39:00PM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote:

> There are three options for what do with os.urandom by default:
> 
> * Allow it to silently return data that may or may not be 
> cryptographically secure based on what the state of the urandom pool 
> initialization looks like.

Just to be clear, this is only an option on Linux, right? All the other 
major platforms block, whatever we decide to do on Linux. Including 
Windows?


-- 
Steve