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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)
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Jean Louis |
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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) |
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Sun, 24 Oct 2021 22:05:56 +0300 |
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Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) |
* Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> [2021-10-22 21:56]:
> (Sorry for the previous unfinished email.)
>
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 at 00:55, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>
> > For people interested, manual explains about randomity:
> > (info "(elisp) Random Numbers")
> >
> > How I understand it, than it may be that neither `pwgen' is generating
> > truly random numbers.
>
> Inspecting the source shows pwgen uses /dev/urandom if available, and
> /dev/random otherwise, and all bytes of the password come from one of
> those sources. These are as random as you can get and use thermal
> noise in your HDD as one of the sources of randomness.
>
> On the other hand, the manual for Emacs ‘random’ says:
>
> A deterministic computer program cannot generate true random numbers.
> For most purposes, “pseudo-random numbers” suffice.
>
> Spoiler: secure password generation is not one of those purposes.
Password generation is not "random numbers". Spoiler is futile. All
your base are belong to us.
--
Jean
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- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), (continued)
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2021/10/22
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Yuri Khan, 2021/10/23
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/23
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Yuri Khan, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Michael Heerdegen, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Yuri Khan, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
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- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/22
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/22
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/22
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- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/21
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