Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:22:51 -0400 | From | Kent Borg <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] frandom - fast random generator module |
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:56:02PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > I am curious how someone is going to use random data from a device > in a shell
I regularly use:
$ head -c 4 /dev/random | ./mnencode
I do it when I need to generate yet another password (I finally had the brains to realize I can't reuse passwords). I pipe 4 (rarely more) bytes into mnencode, a cute little program that maps any data into pronounceable/spellable words. (And mndecode will reverse to process.) So I have a lot of passwords that look like corona-million-binary or horizon-july-egypt or single-august-pump or...
For more information on mnencode see <http://www.tothink.com/mnemonic/>.
-kb, the Kent who would like to see the kernel's random number generator improved (better entropy estimation, better entropy management, ability to supply some initial entropy early in the boot--for embedded devices--and even speed), but the Kent who doesn't want the kernel to be exploded into a catalogue of competing random number generators.
P.S. When is there going to be a good open source password safe for Palm OS? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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