From 27f5de0f9cba114004ef9aa49a541dbc07b9a94c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Surda <surda@economicsofbitcoin.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 08:52:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Unified random number provider

- not used yet, just an inactive helper function
- I received feedback that OpenSSL.rand isn't more secure than
os.urandom. I read several debates/analyses about it and concur
---
 src/helper_random.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/helper_random.py

diff --git a/src/helper_random.py b/src/helper_random.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a0fb08f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/helper_random.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import os
+
+from pyelliptic.openssl import OpenSSL
+
+def randomBytes(n):
+    try:
+        return os.urandom(n)
+    except NotImplementedError:
+        return OpenSSL.rand(n)