On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 19:05 +0100, Thomas Baumann wrote: > Why is there a need to take a high entropy? > Could it be also possible just make a > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=authkey bs=1 count=128 > > Thanks for your reply in advance. > > Thomas. >
/dev/urandom produces sufficient entropy Yup that would work > Zitat von Steven Dake <[email protected]>: > > > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 18:54 +0100, Thomas Baumann wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> which format needs the authkey to have? > >> file authkey is telling me "data". > >> Or, might it be possible just put 1024 random bytes in it? > >> > >> Thanks for your reply in advance. > >> > > > > authkey is a 1024 bit (128 byte) random set of data that has a high > > degree of entropy. > > > > Regards > > -steve > > > >> Thomas. > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> sent via tiri messaging - based on horde/imp/dspam/amavis and more > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Openais mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/openais > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > sent via tiri messaging - based on horde/imp/dspam/amavis and more > _______________________________________________ Openais mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/openais
