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 20:57:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87fsssopks.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 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26103"; 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:ksOL4MchEQ94evO7pMYzFUuUWYU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 22 21:01:24 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 1mdznA-0006dI-J6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:01:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39218 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdzn9-0005Qf-IF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44644) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdzlx-0005QT-Fo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:00:09 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44952) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdzlu-0002m4-Fl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mdzlq-0004m9-Gx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:00:02 +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:134024 Archived-At: Jean Louis 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. Truly random numbers, as you say, cannot be generated since computers are deterministic by nature and definition, and that's a good thing. Maybe quantum computers can do it? For practical purposes it should be random enough as it is, I think. Or that's my superficial understanding of it anyway ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal