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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
Subject: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 20:51:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXL6Kkm3ycVJxKqH@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8V-6nRj8kqt=ewC4LoDJi=ifm+F1iR56jvw-ErrHN4TyQ@mail.gmail.com>

* Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> [2021-10-22 16:16]:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 19:56, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU
> Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Emacs Lisp is good enough to generate passwords just like
> > > `pwgen'
> >
> > Are there some agreed-upon, formal requirements to
> > a password generator?
> 
> The first rule of password generators is to use a crypto quality
> randomness generator. Which, as far as I can tell, Elisp’s ‘random’ is
> not, at least unless you do a ‘(random t)’ first. And maybe not even
> then.

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. 

-- 
Jean

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-22 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 127+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-19 22:12 Noob dumb question (extending emacs) Ivano Da Milano
2021-10-20  0:36 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-20  6:34   ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-10-20 18:13     ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-20  6:53   ` Jean Louis
2021-10-20  8:23     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-20 17:10   ` Ivano Da Milano
2021-10-20 18:41     ` Tassilo Horn
2021-10-20 18:56     ` Ken Goldman
2021-10-20 19:01       ` Ivano Da Milano
2021-10-20 19:45     ` Jean Louis
2021-10-21  5:27       ` Ivano Da Milano
2021-10-21  7:40         ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-21 15:46           ` Ivano Da Milano
2021-10-21 16:03             ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-21 17:49               ` Ivano Da Milano
2021-10-21 18:51         ` Jean Louis
2021-10-21 20:02           ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-21 22:58             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-22  6:59               ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-22 12:18                 ` Jean Louis
2021-10-22 12:56                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-22 13:14                     ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-22 17:51                       ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-10-22 18:50                         ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-22 19:29                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-22 21:22                           ` Jean Louis
2021-10-23 18:08                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-24  7:10                               ` Jean Louis
2021-10-24  9:35                                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-24 17:41                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-10-24 18:20                                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-25  5:47                                       ` Jean Louis
2021-10-25  9:40                                         ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-25 10:23                                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-25 12:41                                           ` Jean Louis
2021-10-25 19:22                                           ` Jean Louis
2021-10-25 19:46                                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-25 19:52                                               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-25 19:56                                                 ` About randomity, entropy, random passwords - was " Jean Louis
2021-10-25 20:29                                                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-25 20:00                                               ` Jean Louis
2021-10-25 19:56                                             ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-25 20:24                                               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-25 20:34                                                 ` Jean Louis
2021-10-25 20:29                                               ` About randomity, entropy, random passwords - was " Jean Louis
2021-10-28 20:39                                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-23  8:41                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-23 10:16                             ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-23 10:46                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-23 18:27                                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-24  8:16                                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-28  2:24                                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-28 11:41                                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-28 12:07                                         ` tomas
2021-10-28 20:56                                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-28 22:54                                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-31 20:46                                             ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-01  2:09                                               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-01 19:38                                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-03  1:06                                                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-03 21:24                                                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-03 22:16                                                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-05 19:03                                                 ` Jean Louis
2021-11-05 21:50                                                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-31 20:42                                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-11-05 18:59                                       ` Jean Louis
2021-10-23 12:54                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-23 13:07                                 ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-23 18:41                                   ` ERC links to man pages (was: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)) Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-24  7:08                                   ` Noob dumb question (extending emacs) Jean Louis
2021-10-24  8:57                                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-24 17:59                                       ` Jean Louis
2021-10-25  9:18                                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-25  9:33                                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-25 19:44                                             ` Jean Louis
2021-10-25 20:20                                               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-25 20:33                                                 ` Jean Louis
2021-10-25 12:45                                           ` Jean Louis
2021-10-25 13:20                                             ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-25 19:54                                               ` About randomity, entropy, random passwords - was " Jean Louis
     [not found]                                               ` <YXcLIC+doASdNFll@protected.localdomain>
     [not found]                                                 ` <87cznryfnz.fsf@web.de>
2021-10-26 18:52                                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-10-23 18:22                               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-23 19:52                                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-24  6:43                               ` Jean Louis
2021-10-24  8:28                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-24 18:03                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-10-24  9:31                                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-24 18:09                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-10-24 18:30                                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-25  5:31                                       ` Jean Louis
2021-10-28  2:33                                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-05 19:09                                           ` Passwords -- " Jean Louis
2021-11-05 22:00                                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-23 18:17                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-24  8:42                               ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-22 18:55                         ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-22 19:30                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-22 21:31                           ` Jean Louis
2021-10-22 22:21                             ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-23 10:46                             ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-23 18:13                               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-24  7:48                                 ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-24  9:37                                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-24  6:45                               ` Jean Louis
2021-10-24  8:50                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-10-24 17:20                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-10-24 18:17                                 ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-24 19:07                                   ` Jean Louis
2021-10-24 19:05                           ` Jean Louis
2021-10-25  0:12                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-25  3:54                               ` Jean Louis
2021-10-22 18:57                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-22 18:53                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-22 17:48                     ` Jean Louis
2021-10-22 19:26                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-21 19:45     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-20  4:04 ` Ivano Da Milano
2021-10-20  5:46 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-20  5:58   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
     [not found]   ` <CAPWV0kyjr0=FrkVkH+Wf573fddX3pM4iiEfkQJ6oe1J_pQuNPA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <86a6j3wo7y.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
     [not found]       ` <CAPWV0kyogB+u0X4dUhpyEox6pih1MJkjE2e_OoqQoP81NZceHQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-10-20 18:31         ` Fwd: " Ivano Da Milano
2021-10-20  6:50 ` Jean Louis
2021-10-20  8:20   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-20 14:13     ` Jean Louis
2021-10-21 19:56       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-23 10:51         ` Tassilo Horn
2021-10-23 18:36           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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