From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 23:33:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXcUli1Fzw4xizBI@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y26gn9eu.fsf@zoho.eu>
* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-10-25 23:22]:
> Jean Louis wrote:
>
> > Entropy can be generated by providing something random that
> > computer did not generate. /dev/urandom I would not know how
> > to read from Emacs Lisp, as it is not regular file. Maybe as
> > stream, don't know now.
>
> Dynamic module, write it in C ... bring over what they did in
> pwgen I should say, I mean the /dev/urandom extraction part.
Why complicate if it need no dynamic module.
There must be some way to read that irregular file from Emacs Lisp.
Not that I want to read /dev/urandom -- why, when I can generate
randomity myself. For example, before password generation I could ask
myself or user to enter random letters and press enter.
--
Jean
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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
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
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2021-10-25 19:56 ` About randomity, entropy, random passwords - was " Jean Louis
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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
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2021-10-24 8:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
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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
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2021-11-03 22:16 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-11-05 19:03 ` Jean Louis
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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
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2021-10-25 12:45 ` Jean Louis
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2021-10-25 19:54 ` About randomity, entropy, random passwords - was " Jean Louis
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2021-11-05 19:09 ` Passwords -- " Jean Louis
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