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

On 08/03/2025 10:27, Stefan Claas wrote:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

On 08/03/2025 09:22, Stefan Claas wrote:

Well, the mouse coordinates are not the only entropy source.

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Indeed.
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Similarly, you can go to the trouble of travelling a hundred miles to
the coast to spit in the ocean to make it deeper.
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But if you don't bother, fear not because the ocean has other sources of
water.
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 Well, as another solution ... Have you checked out my latest thread:

I saw it.

Subject: lun - Lucky Number? Maybe this is something for you, or others,
who prefer the command line, without using your mouse. It generates only
strings of 20 random digits, but it's entropy should be good enough too.

I'm curious. Presumably you think that the entropy from /dev/random is *not* good enough? So in what specific ways are your bits an improvement?
FYI:
https://codebrowser.dev/glibc/glibc/stdlib/random.c.html
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