How good is security via hashing
Paul Rubin
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Tue Jun 7 22:30:26 EDT 2011
Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> writes:
> PyCrypto has a strong pseudorandom number generator, too.
If you mean the one at pycrypto.org, that page now says:
Random number generation
Do not use RandomPool to generate random numbers. Use Crypto.Random
instead. RandomPool is deprecated and will be removed in a future
release. See this thread to find out why.
Crypto.Random just uses system randomness, which is the right thing to
do. It then goes and runs them through a distiller (Fortuna), which
seems a little bit silly to me, but harmless.
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