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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/12/2016 14:02, ilf wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:20161218140244.GE18902@zeromail.org"
type="cite">I also proposed a method to do this without base64:
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ilf:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">Here's a simple
way to generate passwords from /dev/random directly in shell:
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tr -dc "[:graph:]" < /dev/urandom | head -c 32
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<p>As I said at the time, that's terrible because it will consume
4KB or 8KB of data from urandom for every password you generate,
most likely depleting the entropy pool completely.<br>
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