jan matejek added the comment: On 18.10.2015 23:09, STINNER Victor wrote: > Hum ok, so your issue is specific to Linux.
yes, should have specified that, sorry > Hum, the problem was already fixed some months/years ago: you must attach a > RNG virtio device to your VM. Python is just one example, a lot of > applications need entropy. i disagree that this is a good solution; similar to your haveged suggestion, this is a workaround. Unless a program specifically uses randomness, it should not need to read any entropy. For the python runtime itself, this is preventable by setting fixed PYTHONHASHSEED. For `random` module, there is no clean way to prevent it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25420> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
