From a7894f7f4cff412677b3f57a89a98717e0a8f81a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 14:05:28 -0700 Subject: Remove the redundant and poorly worded warning message. The paragraph above already says, clearly and correctly, that "However, being completely deterministic, it is not suitable for all purposes, and is completely unsuitable for cryptographic purposes." Also we should make any promises about SystemRandom or os.urandom() being cryptographically secure (they may be, but be can't validate that promise). Further, those are actual random number generators not psuedo-random number generators. --- Doc/library/random.rst | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst index 11dd367..ff9d2ae 100644 --- a/Doc/library/random.rst +++ b/Doc/library/random.rst @@ -43,12 +43,6 @@ The :mod:`random` module also provides the :class:`SystemRandom` class which uses the system function :func:`os.urandom` to generate random numbers from sources provided by the operating system. -.. warning:: - - 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: -- cgit v0.12