Generating Unique Keys

[Nagy László]

Grant Edwards wrote:

>In article <mailman.1043853713.17341.python-list at python.org>, Nagy László wrote:
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>>>Sorry to be off topic, but why especially?  At least on Linux,
>>>/dev/random is determined by various hardware factors chosen for the
>>>difficulty to guess them (i.e. the float between keyboard controller
>>>clock and the CPU clock generator) and then passed through a one way
>>>hash function. =20
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>>Isn't it used for initializing only?
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>No.  Reading /dev/random returns random bits from an entropy
>"pool" generated by various HW events.  When the pool runs out,
>the read will block until more "randomness" happens -- which
>can be rather inconvenient when you're running a simulation or
>test that's using lots of random values.
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This is a wonderful place to learn from. :-)

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