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Re: [bug-bash] $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number


From: Martijn Dekker
Subject: Re: [bug-bash] $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 20:45:56 +0100
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Op 16-01-19 om 02:21 schreef Quentin:
> If you really need some quality CSPRNG values, I'd suggest adding a
> $SECURE_RANDOM variable that just reads from /dev/urandom.

IMHO, this would clearly be the correct approach. I don't know of any
21st century Unix or Unix-like system that doesn't have /dev/urandom. I
would really like to see shells adopt this idea -- hopefully all with
the same variable name.

- M.



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