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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2013-08-16 17:19:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2013-08-16 17:19:40 (GMT) |
| commit | ba69008bd0999d8fd088b8e66caf019baf73c576 (patch) | |
| tree | bb3e5e9ccf9f5ff86675508ab07a315ce74795df /Doc/library/random.rst | |
| parent | 29c3fc5d8f9e14e10783ab0ecc1bd15e1144cd07 (diff) | |
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Issue #16190: fix random module recommendation to use ssl.RAND_bytes().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst index 55c9d70..11dd367 100644 --- a/Doc/library/random.rst +++ b/Doc/library/random.rst @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ from sources provided by the operating system. .. warning:: - The generators of the :mod:`random` module should not be used for security - purposes. Use :func:`ssl.RAND_bytes` if you require a cryptographically - secure pseudorandom number generator. + The pseudo-random generators of this module should not be used for + security purposes. Use :func:`os.urandom` or :class:`SystemRandom` if + you require a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator. Bookkeeping functions: |