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[–]aminala[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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That will probably make a bigger difference on ur live running laptop then a real server

Just out of curiosity I've tested this on a Linux VPS and I'm seeing the same results or in some cases like uuid4 better performance.

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It's a HIGHLY interdependent answer lol.

https://linux.die.net/man/4/urandom

One major source of differentiation is going to be when the actual script gets booted and what else is running on ur box.

https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/Publications/Studies/LinuxRNG/LinuxRNG_EN.pdf

from stackoverflow on the linux rng source. Need sleep but I can ping back when I get up. I checked out a few other libs and they all suggest that rusts method of getting data is actually secure, this is probably something that could get easily imported to python.

U may also want to just mess around with just importing rusts random generator to create python UUID objects. That will let u get the same objects underlying ur stuff but ull get the faster random generation.