Ralph wrote: > Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > Just read, say, 64 bytes from /dev/random and base64 encode it. > > Would /dev/urandom suffice? Entropy can be in short supply in some > environments, e.g. VMs, and given it's MH it may be being scripted to > send a few emails in a short time. > > heirloom-mailx uses /dev/urandom with a fallback if it's not available.
/dev/urandom is fine. 64 bytes? Though 64 bits seems too short. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
