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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)
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Jean Louis |
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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) |
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Mon, 25 Oct 2021 23:33:26 +0300 |
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Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) |
* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-10-25 23:22]:
> Jean Louis wrote:
>
> > Entropy can be generated by providing something random that
> > computer did not generate. /dev/urandom I would not know how
> > to read from Emacs Lisp, as it is not regular file. Maybe as
> > stream, don't know now.
>
> Dynamic module, write it in C ... bring over what they did in
> pwgen I should say, I mean the /dev/urandom extraction part.
Why complicate if it need no dynamic module.
There must be some way to read that irregular file from Emacs Lisp.
Not that I want to read /dev/urandom -- why, when I can generate
randomity myself. For example, before password generation I could ask
myself or user to enter random letters and press enter.
--
Jean
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