Re: Generate random passwords with your mouse ... :-)

On 06/03/2025 20:09, Stefan Claas wrote:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 06/03/2025 19:28, Stefan Claas wrote:

Marcel Logen wrote:

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One question I ask myself:
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Aren't you losing entropy when you use the modulo operation
in the "bytes_to_chars" function? I wonder.

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Yes, but this can be fixed by doubling the entropy

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Not all of us are prepared to wait that long.

 Well, and old saying of mine: "privacy cost time and money" ... ;-)

I can get quicker bits with dice.
I can see no reason why it takes so long on my system, which generally trots along like Concorde on steroids. I've profiled your code to no avail, and so, for me at least, it's simply not a practical proposition.
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