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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Generate random passwords with your mouse ... :-)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 19:30:55 +0000
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On 06/03/2025 19:28, Stefan Claas wrote:
> Marcel Logen wrote:

<snip>

>>
>> 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

Not all of us are prepared to wait that long.

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