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Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator



Perhaps taking d-mentors@l.d.o off future replies could be done.

Thanks!

-mz

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors
<timo.lindfors@iki.fi> wrote:
> Vladimir Stavrinov <vstavrinov@gmail.com> writes:
>> In some degree it is compensated by the fact, that double letters are
>> excluded as well as other combinations. This forces to to call $RANDOM
>> again and again before pick up a symbol.
>
> Calling $RANDOM again and again does not help at all. If you run
>
> for i in $(seq 20); do
>    echo $RANDOM
> done
>
> and tell me the first 10 numbers I can tell you what the rest of the
> numbers are going to be.
>
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