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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 21:30:40 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Yuri Khan wrote:

> 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.

Clever! Cool.

Can't `random' do the same?

Or add a separate `random-linux' perhaps ...

Or is that what the option does?

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