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Re: Waiting for Randot (or: nia and maya were right and I was wrong)



> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:35:26 -0500 (EST)
> From: Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
> 
> >    Such an application, like a Python program in the middle of just
> >    doing `import multiprocessing', [...]
> 
> Seems to me the elephant in the room here is: why would Python "just
> doing `import multiprocessing'" need cryptographic-strength randomness?
> What am I missing that makes this reasonable?

I already addressed this in a previous thread that I cited at the
start of this one, and I'm not interested in getting into a discussion
about how we should patch Python to work differently on NetBSD from
every other platform.  Here's the background:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2020/12/05/msg040019.html


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