Is this secure?

mk mrkafk at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 14:09:59 EST 2010


On 2010-02-24 20:01, Robert Kern wrote:
> I will repeat my advice to just use random.SystemRandom.choice() instead
> of trying to interpret the bytes from /dev/urandom directly.

Oh I hear you -- for production use I would (will) certainly consider 
this. However, now I'm interested in the problem itself: why is the damn 
distribution not uniform?

Regards,
mk





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