On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:30 AM Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:10 AM Kevin Sheppard < > kevin.k.shepp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 1. The total number of digits in the binary representation is >> somewhere between 32 and 128. >> >> > I like using the standard library `secrets` module. > > >>> import secrets > >>> secrets.randbelow(1<<128) > 8080125189471896523368405732926911908 > > If you want an easy-to-follow rule, just use the above snippet to get a > 128-bit number. More than 128 bits won't do you any good (at least by > default, the internal bottleneck inside of SeedSequence is a 128-bit pool), > and 128-bit numbers are just about small enough to copy-paste comfortably. > Sorry, `secrets.randbits(128)` is the cleaner form of this. -- Robert Kern
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