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Re: How good is security via hashing

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: How good is security via hashing
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Date 2011-06-07 19:30 -0700
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Christian Heimes <lists@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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Re: How good is security via hashing Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2011-06-08 00:08 +0200
  Re: How good is security via hashing Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-07 19:30 -0700
    Re: How good is security via hashing geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-06-07 22:25 -0700

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