From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:29:06 +0200 Message-ID: <877de4oo3h.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <86k0i6uoxd.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <871r4ernmt.fsf@zoho.eu> <87o87hnrpt.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18231"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:aVF/TVr+939phZXwwhNjEfGc5rg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 22 21:31:21 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1me0G9-0004aU-25 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:31:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46386 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1me0G7-00042G-IV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:31:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1me0Ey-000420-5z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38522) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1me0Eu-0005tE-Ep for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1me0Es-0002uc-J3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:30:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134026 Archived-At: Yuri Khan wrote: > 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. Okay, but how does it happen them? Roll the dice on 5 continents and add the extra 2 just in case? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal