Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)

[Jean Louis]

* Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> [2021-10-22 21:56]:
> (Sorry for the previous unfinished email.)
> 
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 at 00:55, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Inspecting the source shows pwgen uses /dev/urandom if available, and
> /dev/random otherwise, and all bytes of the password come from one of
> those sources. These are as random as you can get and use thermal
> noise in your HDD as one of the sources of randomness.
> 
> On the other hand, the manual for Emacs ‘random’ says:
> 
>     A deterministic computer program cannot generate true random numbers.
>     For most purposes, “pseudo-random numbers” suffice.
> 
> Spoiler: secure password generation is not one of those purposes.

Password generation is not "random numbers". Spoiler is futile. All
your base are belong to us.


-- 
Jean

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