From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 20:08:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ytnzka1.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YXMre/nIphjTAzuj@protected.localdomain
Jean Louis wrote:
> Absolutes are not attainable and practically any LISP can
> generate passwords just as many other random outcomes.
If Linux can do it it should be possible to hook Lisp (Elisp)
into that same mechanism and without too much work as well,
since the work is already done.
> What matters is practicality. Can a program generate
> a practical random password? If answer is YES, it is useful.
>
> For huge majority of users it does not matter neither they
> can know that passwords have their seeds or that they are
> not truly random.
No one is saying stop using Lisp for practical purposes.
But doing things the right way is not a slower or more
impractical way to do it in the short run - and in the long
run, it is much better in that and other respects ...
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
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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 [this message]
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
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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
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2021-10-25 19:56 ` About randomity, entropy, random passwords - was " Jean Louis
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2021-10-25 20:29 ` 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
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2021-10-31 20:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
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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
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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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2021-10-24 17:20 ` Jean Louis
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2021-10-24 19:07 ` Jean Louis
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