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Pycrypto - Using Crypto.Random to generate a secret key and an initialisation vector

Can Crypto.Random be used to safely generate a strong secret key and an initialisation vector?

Solution

  • According to the PyCryto docs, the answer is yes:

    from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA
from Crypto import Random
rng = Random.new().read
RSAkey = RSA.generate(1024, rng)