hplip needs /dev/random.... ?

[Daniel J Walsh]

Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:13 -0700, Tom London wrote:
>   
>> Printing seemed to work regardless.
>>
>> /usr/share/hplip/base/slp.py appears to import random and call
>> 'random.randint()'
>>     
>
> Doesn't seem to require a cryptographically random number here.  In
> fact, I'm not even sure it needs to be a freshly-random number each
> time; perhaps '1' is sufficient.  It's just for a transaction ID which
> is never checked as far as I can tell.
>
> Should I patch hplip to use '1' here instead of random.randint() do you
> think?
>
>   
If it is not needed, I would guess yes.
> Tim.
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