https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/seccng/cng-portal ?
On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, 23:18 Dan Stromberg, wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 8:37 AM Steve Dower
> wrote:
>
>> On 7/12/2021 4:11 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>> > It looks like CPython could do better on Windows: SystemRandom (becau
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 8:37 AM Steve Dower wrote:
> On 7/12/2021 4:11 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> > It looks like CPython could do better on Windows: SystemRandom (because
> > of os.urandom()) is good on Linux and mac, but on Windows they use the
> > CryptGenRandom deprecated API
> >
> > Supp
"PEP 543 -- A Unified TLS API for Python" could specify a [CS][P][RNG]
interface that could be used instead of os.urandom, which is probably also
wrong.
PEP 543 compares OpenSSL, SecureTransport, SChannel, and NSS; which
presumably all have some sort of a CSPRNG function that may or may not need
On 7/12/2021 4:11 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
It looks like CPython could do better on Windows: SystemRandom (because
of os.urandom()) is good on Linux and mac, but on Windows they use the
CryptGenRandom deprecated API
Supporting detail:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/win
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 2:26 PM Tim Peters wrote:
> [Ethan Furman]
> > A question [1] has arisen about the viability of `random.SystemRandom` in
> > Pythons before and after the secrets module was introduced
> > (3.5 I think) -- specifically
> >
> > does it give independent and uniform discre
* Citation: https://cryptography.io/en/latest/random-numbers/
On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 7:53 PM Wes Turner wrote:
> FWIW, here is what https://cryptography.io has re: random (/? rng python
> cryptography)
>
> ```rst
> Random number generation
>
>
> When generating random d
FWIW, here is what https://cryptography.io has re: random (/? rng python
cryptography)
```rst
Random number generation
When generating random data for use in cryptographic operations, such as an
initialization vector for encryption in
:class:`~cryptography.hazmat.primitiv
On 7/9/21 2:25 PM, Tim Peters wrote:
> `secrets` is just a wrapper around `random.SystemRandom`, so the
> presence or absence of `secrets` doesn't matter.
>
> As to SystemRandom, all answers depend on the quality of the platform
> os.urandom(), which Python has no control over. See my answer here
[Ethan Furman]
> A question [1] has arisen about the viability of `random.SystemRandom` in
> Pythons before and after the secrets module was introduced
> (3.5 I think) -- specifically
>
> does it give independent and uniform discrete distribution for
> cryptographic purposes across CPytho
