[Python-ideas] Should our default random number generator be secure?

random832 at fastmail.us random832 at fastmail.us
Wed Sep 9 20:56:13 CEST 2015


On Wed, Sep 9, 2015, at 14:17, Stefan Krah wrote:
> Random number generation is a very broad field. I'm not a specialist,
> so I just entered "Mersenne Twister" into an academic search engine
> and got many results, but none for arc4random.

Try "Chacha". The "arc4random" name is a legacy of an older
implementation.


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