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

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 07:00:45 CEST 2015


[Chris Angelico]
> If arc4random reseeds with entropy periodically, then jumping ahead
> past such a reseed is simply a matter of performing a reseed, isn't
> it?

The OpenBSD version supplies no functionality related to seeds (you
can't set one, and you can't ask for one).


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