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remove out of date details in random numbers docs (#8482)

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@ -18,16 +18,13 @@ you can obtain them with:
>>> import os
>>> iv = os.urandom(16)
This will use ``/dev/urandom`` on UNIX platforms, and ``BCryptGenRandom()`` on
Windows.
If you need your random number as an integer (for example, for
:meth:`~cryptography.x509.CertificateBuilder.serial_number`), you can use
If you need your random number as an big integer, you can use
``int.from_bytes`` to convert the result of ``os.urandom``:
.. code-block:: pycon
>>> serial = int.from_bytes(os.urandom(20), byteorder="big")
>>> serial = int.from_bytes(os.urandom(16), byteorder="big")
In addition, the `Python standard library`_ includes the ``secrets`` module,
which can be used for generating cryptographically secure random numbers, with