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: About randomity, entropy, random passwords - was Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 22:29:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87pmrsn906.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <875ytnzka1.fsf@zoho.eu> <87h7d6zrx9.fsf@zoho.eu> <87fssqxp1s.fsf@zoho.eu> <878rygopki.fsf@zoho.eu> <8735ooopan.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="21060"; 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:Fqp8Hbv9Dw2N77f/Mno04MYr8b0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 25 22:31:29 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 1mf6cw-0005BB-IB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 22:31:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59434 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mf6cu-0007ed-0n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60714) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mf6bf-0007e7-ED for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:40750) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mf6bc-0002Xg-LR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mf6ba-0003To-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 22:30:02 +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:134162 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > I was just testing it, I did not use /dev/urandm ever. > It can be done, but that is slow and not portable. It is about being and beating the best, I don't care what other people use. Besides what you say isn't true. A C solution that reads from a regular or nonregular file on a Unix system is portable enough, few things are that portable in the computing world. > This seem to work blazing fast and is portable enough [...] ... I'm done. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal