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Author	christian.heimes
Recipients	Colm Buckley, Lukasa, Theodore Tso, alex, christian.heimes, doko, dstufft, larry, lemburg, martin.panter, matejcik, ned.deily, python-dev, rhettinger, skrah, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner, ztane
Date	2016年06月08日.09:46:40
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Message-id	<50319774-9208-25bf-6400-8787147039a9@cheimes.de>
In-reply-to	<1465378744.6.0.846317155805.issue26839@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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On 2016年06月08日 11:39, STINNER Victor wrote: > > STINNER Victor added the comment: > > no-urandom-by-default.diff uses a very weak source of entropy for random.Random :-( I'm fighting against weak sources of entropy since many years... It is totally fine to init the MT of random.random() from a weak entropy source. Just keep in mind that a Mersenne Twister is not a CPRNG. There is simply no reason why you want to init a MT from a CPRNG.

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On 2016年06月08日 11:39, STINNER Victor wrote:
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> STINNER Victor added the comment:
> 
> no-urandom-by-default.diff uses a very weak source of entropy for random.Random :-( I'm fighting against weak sources of entropy since many years...
It is totally fine to init the MT of random.random() from a weak entropy
source. Just keep in mind that a Mersenne Twister is not a CPRNG. There
is simply no reason why you want to init a MT from a CPRNG.

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2016年06月08日 09:46:41	christian.heimes	set	recipients: + christian.heimes, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, larry, matejcik, ned.deily, alex, skrah, python-dev, martin.panter, ztane, dstufft, Lukasa, thomas-petazzoni, Colm Buckley, Theodore Tso
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