[issue18811] add ssl-based generator to random module

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes added the comment:

I don't get it either. urandom is perfectly fine. I showed that urandom is just a bit slower than SSL_rand().

How about we generalize SystemRandom so  users can implement a custom RNG class wby providing a method rng(amount) -> bytes?

Antoine Pitrou <report at bugs.python.org> schrieb:
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>Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
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>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...
>:-))?
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>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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