[PATCH] stop using pwgen

Antoine Beaupré anarcat at debian.org
Sun Dec 18 16:43:15 CET 2016


On 2016-12-18 10:20:48, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/commit/?id=f2a6078885c61040737c602a99ee75ba8009f17f
>
> Any criticism of this? I'll revert this if there's good reason to
> revert it. Otherwise, after thinking about this for only 40 seconds, I
> think it's an improvement.
>
> I've CC'd Corentin on this email, who's an expert at password generation.

A critique of this approach (specifically "< /dev/random", IIUC) was
detailed in a post here:

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/password-store/2016-November/002472.html

A.
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