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

On 06/03/2025 15:06, Marcel Logen wrote:

Richard Heathfield in sci.crypt:
 [...]
 

I wouldn't read too much into that; the program was interrupted,

 ACK
 

after all, so there's no reason to assume that it didn't catch
the interrupt while in the process of moving from one consistent
state to another.

 OK, that is an argument.

And we now have a better one straight from the OP, which is that it ain't a SHA of that, but of internal state.
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