> Have you read the following sentence: > > “Since some platforms may not have /dev/urandom, we need a PRNG in the > core, too. I therefore propose to move the Mersenne twister from > randommodule.c into the core, too.”
I disagree. We don't need a PRNG on platforms without /dev/urandom or any other native RNG. Initializing the string-hash seed to 0 is perfectly fine on those platforms; we can do slightly better by using, say, the current time (in ms or µs if available) and the current pid (if available). People concerned with the security on those systems either need to switch to a different system, or provide a patch to access the platform's native random number generator. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
