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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Generate random passwords with your mouse ... :-)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 10:46:42 +0000
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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.
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> Similarly, you can go to the trouble of travelling a hundred miles to
>> the coast to spit in the ocean to make it deeper.
>>
>> But if you don't bother, fear not because the ocean has other sources of
>> water.
>>
> 
> 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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