Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)

[Yuri Khan]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 19:56, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU
Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Emacs Lisp is good enough to generate passwords just like
> > `pwgen'
>
> Are there some agreed-upon, formal requirements to
> a password generator?

The first rule of password generators is to use a crypto quality
randomness generator. Which, as far as I can tell, Elisp’s ‘random’ is
not, at least unless you do a ‘(random t)’ first. And maybe not even
then.