<div dir="auto">There is a non-zero probability that a RNG will output the complete works of Shakespeare.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Sent from my telephone.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 4, 2017 13:56, "Matthieu Weber" <<a href="mailto:mweber@free.fr">mweber@free.fr</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="quoted-text">On Thu 04.05.2017 at 09:35:24PM +1000, Jens Tröger wrote:<br>
> I know that passwords are generated by pwgen, which is considered a<br>
> strong generator (right?) but today it produced a password with<br>
> consecutive repetitions: #9d:$_r{""yww4{k?}.i'^P}z<br>
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</div>Randomness sometimes generates repetition. If you want to filter out the<br>
passwords with repetitions, you are effectively reducing the number of<br>
possible passwords, therefore making it (slightly) easier to crack.<br>
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> Not sure if this is an issue per se? Can I ignore this in the future?<br>
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</div>I would say it's not an issue, especially with this long a password as<br>
the one above.<br>
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