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| From | Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> |
| Subject | Re: How good is security via hashing |
| Date | Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:08:03 +0200 |
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Am 07.06.2011 20:26, schrieb Terry Reedy: > On 6/7/2011 7:35 AM, Robin Becker wrote: > >> I guess what I'm asking is whether any sequence that's using random to >> generate random numbers is predictable if enough samples are drawn. > > Apparently so. random.random is *not* 'cryptographically secure'. > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cryptographically_secure_pseudorandom_number_generator > > One of Python's crypto wrapper modules (sorry, forget which one) was > recently modified to expose the crypto rng functions in the wrapped C > library. It should be mentioned in What New for 3.3. You might be able > to get at the same functions with ctypes. PyCrypto has a strong pseudorandom number generator, too.
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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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