Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)

[Michael Heerdegen]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> The position in the sequence, aka the random seed, contains a certain
> number of bits. In Emacs, as far as I can tell, best case, the random
> seed is 48 bits.

That would be 281.474.976.710.656 or 2.8*10^15.  I guess this is still
quite hard to handle?  At least if you use additional salting.

Ok, but I see that this entropy is just enough for a random password of
a length of 8 or 9, depending on the character range used, so it's edgy.

Just curious btw, I haven't followed this thread closely, especially did
I not follow who offered what code to whom.

Michael.