[Openstack-security] [Bug 1246159] Re: seed method brings potential	security issue
    Bin Hou 
    binhou at cn.ibm.com
       
    Tue Feb 18 01:52:43 UTC 2014
    
    
  
Could you help to find someone in cinder group to take a look at this
bug?
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Title:
  seed method brings potential security issue
Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova):
  Invalid
Status in OpenStack Security Advisories:
  Invalid
Bug description:
  In the /cinder/transfer/apil.py, line 86, the source code is below
             random.seed(datetime.datetime.now().microsecond)
  This code is using seed method to generate a random number, Standard
  random number generators should not be used to generate randomness
  used for security reasons. For security sensitive randomness a
  crytographic randomness generator that provides sufficient entropy
  should be used.
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