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

[Tim Peters]

[Tim, on CryptMT]
> I did see one paper suggesting it was possible to distinguish the
> output of that from a truly random sequence given 2**50 consecutive
> outputs (but that's all - still no way to deduce the state).

Sorry:  not 2**50 consecutive outputs (which are bytes), but 2**50
consecutive output bits, so only 2**47 outputs.