[issue18811] add ssl-based generator to random module

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Seriously, why are we obsessed with performance when talking about a security feature? Did anyone *actually* complain about urandom() being too slow (ok, someone complained about it eating file descriptors... :-))?

The question is whether OpenSSL's random generator produces better randomness than the system one: apparently it's not the case under Linux, how about other systems?

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