[pycrypto] Crypto.Random for password generation
Dwayne Litzenberger
dlitz at dlitz.net
Tue Apr 23 23:20:43 PDT 2013
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:44:56AM -0600, Alex Beal wrote:
>I was wondering if Crypto.Random is suitable for password generation
>purposes. I maintain an xkcd-style password generator (
>https://github.com/beala/xkcd-password) and have switched from python's
>random.SystemRandom to pycrypto's Crypto.Random. Python only makes vague
>guarantees about random.SystemRandom, so I thought pycrypto would be a
>better choice. Any input would be appreciated.
Yes. Crypto.Random is designed to be a cryptographically strong random
number generator, so it should work fine as a random source for password
generation.
Cheers,
- Dwayne
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Dwayne C. Litzenberger <dlitz at dlitz.net>
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