[PATCH] stop using pwgen

Allan Odgaard lists+pass at simplit.com
Sun Dec 18 19:13:26 CET 2016


On 18 Dec 2016, at 21:56, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:

>> tr -dc "[:graph:]" < /dev/urandom | head -c 32
>
> This is indeed the most suitable way of doing things. It ensures the
> reduction is done correctly ("pick and discard" technique), and it
> allows for the user to override the character set (via environment
> variable, naturally).

This does not work on macOS if encoding (`LC_CTYPE`) is set to UTF-8, as 
the chance of getting valid UTF-8 from `/dev/urandom` is near zero, so 
`tr` will complain about illegal byte sequence.
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