[Python-ideas] Should our default random number generator be secure?

Stefan Krah skrah at bytereef.org
Wed Sep 9 22:07:32 CEST 2015


Stefan Krah <skrah at ...> writes:
> The OpenBSD devs could also publish arc4random as a library that
> works everywhere (like OpenSSH). That would be a nicer solution
> for everyone (except for the devs perhaps :).

And naturally they're already doing that. I missed this in Theo's first
mail:

https://github.com/libressl-portable/openbsd/tree/master/src/lib/libcrypto/crypto
https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/tree/master/crypto/compat


So I guess the whole thing also depends on how popular these
libraries will be.


Stefan Krah






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