On 7/12/2021 4:11 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
It looks like CPython could do better on Windows: SystemRandom (because of os.urandom()) is good on Linux and mac, but on Windows they use the CryptGenRandom deprecated API.... Supporting detail: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wincrypt/nf-wincrypt-cryptgenrandom <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wincrypt/nf-wincrypt-cryptgenrandom>Please do, but note that the API is only deprecated because it was not very extensible and the new API is much more comple... er... extensible. There's nothing wrong with the randomness from the function. It'll be using the new API under the covers. So this is an enhancement, not a security issue, and should only target 3.11.Should I open an issue?
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