[Python-ideas] Python's Source of Randomness and the random.py module Redux
Alexander Walters
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Thu Sep 10 11:20:48 CEST 2015
Can I just ask what is the actual problem we are trying to solve here?
Python has third party cryptography modules, that bring their own
sources of randomness (or cryptography libraries that do the same).
Python has a good random library for everything other than cryptography.
Why in the heck are we trying to make the random module do something
that it is already documented as being a poor choice, where there is
already third party modules that do just this?
Who needs cryptographic randomness in the standard library anyways (even
though one line of code give you access to it)? Have we identified even
ONE person who does cryptography in python who is kicking themselves
that they cant use the random module as implemented?
Is this just indulging a paranoid developer?
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