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<H1>[pycrypto] What to do about RandomPool</H1>
<B>Paul Hoffman</B>
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<I>Tue Jul 22 09:08:17 CST 2008</I>
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<PRE>On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Dwayne C. Litzenberger <<A HREF="http://lists.dlitz.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pycrypto">dlitz at dlitz.net</A>> wrote:
><i> I'm not sure that PyCrypto is the right place to implement a good RNG,
</I>><i> anyway.
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...much less a bad one. :-)
><i> Would there be any objection to replacing RandomPool with a simple wrapper
</I>><i> around os.urandom? A quick benchmark shows that reading from /dev/urandom on
</I>><i> Linux is about 10-50x faster than using RandomPool.
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No objection here.
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