[Python-Dev] PEP 506 secrets module
Victor Stinner
victor.stinner at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 05:33:59 EDT 2015
2015-10-20 11:11 GMT+02:00 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> Folks wanting to simulate die rolls should be using the random module
> rather than the secrets module anyway,
Hum, why? Dices are used in Casino where security matters because it
costs money.
A bad API can be more likely misused and introduce security
vulnerability. The C rand() API is a good example: 1+rand()%6 is not
uniform...
Victor
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