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From: Stefan Claas <fgrsna.pynnf@vagrearg.eh>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Generate random passwords with your mouse ... :-)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 20:28:47 +0100
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Marcel Logen wrote:
> Stefan Claas in sci.crypt:
> 
> > Sure, it only needs a slight change in the C code, but I do not want
> > to have the shasum of a password and prefer the shasum of the entropy,
> > so that the shasum can be used for a password as well! :-)
> 
> One question I ask myself:
> 
> Aren't you losing entropy when you use the modulo operation
> in the "bytes_to_chars" function? I wonder.

Yes, but this can be fixed by doubling the entropy and then
using rejection sampling.

Regards
Stefan

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