[issue18756] os.urandom() fails under high load

[Charles-François Natali]

Charles-François Natali added the comment:

> In the light of the recent Android issue with PRNGs [1] I don't think
> that Python should roll out its own CPRNG. I'd rather use the operation
> system's CPRNG or OpenSSL's CPRNG. After all we aren't crypto experts.
> I'd rather point my finger to OpenSSL than take the blame for a faulty
> CPRNG.

Yeah, sure.
But it would be nice to have an API similar to the random module (i.e.
a Random ABC, which could have several implementations, among which an
/dev/urandom backed one). The underlying FD lifetime would be tied to
the Random object lifetime, and we couldn't have to open/close it at
each call.

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