Daily Archives: February 17, 2010
Pulling random data from /dev/random
This is a shell script that will pull 5 random characters from /dev/random and print them out to standard output. It was created as the input component for a random password generator that I am currently writing. Note on using /dev/random: as usual, using this source for entropy will give you pure randomness, though due [...]
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