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| Date | Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:25:12 -0700 |
| Subject | Re: How good is security via hashing |
| From | geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> |
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > 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. On a related note, keyczar just got bitten by this. > 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. IIRC this is mostly to help deal with the possibility of running on older Windows machines, where the cryptographic random number service was of very poor quality. Geremy Condra
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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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