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Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator
From: |
Greg Wooledge |
Subject: |
Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Dec 2018 10:03:56 -0500 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 09:56:33AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> There has to be a compelling reason to change this, especially at a point
> so close to a major release.
>
> You might be expecting too much from bash's random number generator. Is
> the problem that its period is at most 2**16? For its intended uses, the
> cycle length is acceptable. Do you disagree?
I suspect he doesn't share the same understanding of the "intended
uses" of bash's $RANDOM as the rest of us.
It's meant for displaying a random wallpaper image from a directory,
or for playing a random audio file from a directory. Or for playing a
number guessing game with a 6 year old.
It is emphatically NOT for generating passwords.
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/02
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Eduardo Bustamante, 2018/12/02
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator,
Greg Wooledge <=
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/03
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/15
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Eduardo Bustamante, 2018/12/16
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Ole Tange, 2018/12/28
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/31
- Re: $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator, Chet Ramey, 2018/12/17