[Python-ideas] Should our default random number generator be secure?
Tim Peters
tim.peters at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 07:10:10 CEST 2015
[Tim]
> ...
> The fly in the ointment for the OpenBSD version is that it
> periodically fiddles its internal state with "entropy" obtained from
> the kernel. It's completely unreproducible for that reason. However,
> you can still jump ahead in the state.
I should add: but only if they supplied a jumpahead function. Which
they don't.
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