Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)

[Jean Louis]

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-10-25 23:26]:
> Yuri Khan wrote:
> 
> > Then you proceed to generate a random password using the
> > seeded pseudo-random generator. Which is a step up from an
> > unseeded pseudo-random generator (you could generate
> > a series of passwords from a single seed, making it easier
> > for the attacker who knows one to guess others) but still
> > not as random as you would get by just converting raw
> > entropy into printable characters.
> 
> Here:
> 
> - get industrial strength random numbers from /dev/urandom

Sorry -- do you want to undermine my `rcd-password' function as not to
be of industrial strength? Please... I am using it in the industry. ;-p

-- 
Jean

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