On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:53:54AM -0700, Daniel C. wrote: > On 11/22/05, Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a more serious note, to avoid strange tty effects, you might want > > to do `od /dev/urandom`. > > Why does the left column here count upward 20 at a time?
It's octal by default. > Also, I did od /dev/urandom > asdf and then hit ctrl-c as quick as I > could, and there were already 15,941 lines in it. How random is > this, really? Your answer is in the comments in near the top of this file: http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/char/random.c > That's a lot of "random" data being generated really quickly, is it > safe to use this for password generation a la diceware? In short, yes. Mike .___________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 419C 5B1E 948A FA73 A54C 20F5 DB40 8531 6DCA 8769 You will lose an important disk file.
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