From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 23:33:26 +0300 Message-ID: References: <875ytnucjn.fsf@web.de> <87sfwqre9e.fsf@web.de> <8735opa2e8.fsf@web.de> <874k95wirz.fsf@zoho.eu> <87y26gn9eu.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7396"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 25 22:36:32 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 1mf6hs-0001i9-33 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 22:36:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40438 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mf6hq-0005YE-8v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:36:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33964) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mf6h9-0005W4-PP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:35:47 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:37647) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mf6h8-0002Iq-4Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:35:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.75.189.151]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000027F1D.0000000061771520.00004865; Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:35:43 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y26gn9eu.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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:134164 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [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 Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/