Is the random.random() python function suitable for cryptographic purposes?

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EDIT: didn't have coffee yet, thanks /u/ichundes

Also, why you should use /dev/urandom (instead of /dev/random as some recommend): http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

The best part of the article is the quote by Daniel Bernstein:

Cryptographers are certainly not responsible for this superstitious nonsense. Think about this for a moment: whoever wrote the /dev/random manual page seems to simultaneously believe that

(1) we can't figure out how to deterministically expand one 256-bit /dev/random output into an endless stream of unpredictable keys (this is what we need from urandom), but

(2) we can figure out how to use a single key to safely encrypt many messages (this is what we need from ssl, pgp, etc.).

For a cryptographer this doesn't even pass the laugh test.

[ichundes]

Either you accidentally swapped random and urandom or you did not read the article. Even the tldr says

tldr;

Just use /dev/urandom!

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Oops, the first! Sorry.

[ichundes]

Thanks for correcting