On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:28:53AM -0700, Myles Green wrote: > > Huh? WTF are you smoking? There's no binary stuff there, just a _good_ > mix of upper and lower case plus numbers and other keyboard symbols. want to bet smart ass? $ cat /dev/urandom | od -s8 -An æÅãHÓà «Ï Üäþ1èvp'·¤Äß WÚ¬:ÐVÂa¡S ¦FI¬Û¸¨ÌZÔÔ rÝ:Qï0|öU¡íúC¶@ åwSßôIîxU25,\¿è¾Oçø| ĺþ*Fãdª_<V Y»p½>:ª¡º¨/Ýâ:u_ÇY¾ÝO N£"XG±£5Ê+ÉÐ¥ ë·B}êúé9#ñF [øÛÿ^µNa RZ½4PÍgÊC¸1r»#±ÑZÀ3 V#ñ§þCRñʽÓÉð íä/«9åø£, 6sWâ>-»Âëo i"Ùå@qØ;ÂkéÔ> ±*¸h³¢}c ®:üУXh¨kn}¾ß2 81Îï¹@¡3 ~g̬&u6~+¤&ÞòYq+ÆJó ¨r»åWN²².* t©fÒ¶pü=¹ <åS¸6UA O5üôu¾9 <95Îw÷õu·¾S ïóg÷¹8¬!/ToJ±÷ Ør@Öwà¹î s¨Ú®Ã=]úGòÜÀrÒÒÛ½ ýZÒÊ[õóÁ¸j§7Ð6á!=QúX `_~mÞJðQ P4ÏþîÞ»GÒ? Vº¨6}Qª§ r÷*äÇRÜMC*u¯ ïÔD:ЧKí *¾ÍÞ»ÓÖÎNl ÁÐø¤ßvµð å)DªÎHFç¾ ûªäÌ:ÑîNý² àd=¨ò\a¥@³ »&%Ûþ¶ü3¬ l¾D%0õNª4w zâ]:þm´zr¦ædäh¯Ú ï9v_Ê\¹Î t.Á1ÄôáöÐ_ òÇÐBÍ¡}gfüb ;}驹QüN"ÔÔô m <<âÏ,q¤ faÆL®ë¨¼¡hޢŸ eý±»Y÷æ&BÁ1E¹ {ÚX[7¨ö¯6cöþݵN º4¦ºÑMÅÄn7R¡Jhcj ÚàǾFÅsï Å5wð<gKæy ª¬B6]#{©¦íÎN ¯Paá\ê&·I4 ¢ÜÅã¤ÄîÝ»ç sêirÅè]ïSs´,2O,ÔÖ7®ÂÃsÙ þZJLÙg`Ù ¼ÓkùÌüz¥±¦_F¹vAS v@ät0³x! ¤ÏrÎffÔÀÕg ä`¦¦íAؼ owÞ{ÜXúº¢Á9®|irÅØÅÄ× ¼R)Ïñ»ÿwc¯ àTð´Lç^ýÁ¥ TþðäÎìnN( ñÙ/JÐof¾:H ²ð~ùNªøëZÚè½< 6ÑBb>&¤UÇ&KM Û`Ò®VúþÚ] ÿ!ÐéL¥Pê û¡<þmuy) "æýp»GT´á!i_eyò¢±÷y St±¯{É·0]É5è4#ê K%ÈÍ3hyðÔÚ/Òñ $ uname -a Linux socrates 2.2.18 #1 Mon Dec 11 05:55:24 AKST 2000 ppc unknown same thing happens on my intel box running 2.2.16. > By any standards, those will be tough passwords to crack. Of course they sure will since they are impossible to actually use. > it's your box and you can use your birth date if you want, just don't > expect it to reamain a secret for very long. did i say that? no i said you can use the makepasswd package would DOES create secure random passwords from /dev/random (NOT /dev/urandom, so your even getting better quality entropy) tell what is so damn insecure about these? $ while true ; do makepasswd --chars=12 ; done t2nWXiWynAU8 qdesULEdwzLG g3YfAxqxLG1d 3ozxc6aPbAi4 Ng8jBynWUwjg U727TSua9FYW ETgas7dp7szx oTbAFMp1TWAJ 3LyIv5hs1Wx8 LM80L6gUmjMa qccT163EtJpb Gf99d7fVbuxK UmR5oqyII19G qAHNgbrSygg6 xYnCquo137qe p0g1gG37jQSi uMI8hJpufKsB eAoqSuhG6MoG 4IgBSLf9qNI3 Q8t2zdGvJs9N 6gDj1zJwazii JamPPfFKwCxJ you have to actually pound the keyboard somewhere else to generate enough entropy to get that many, unlike /dev/urandom old entropy won't be hashed and reused. but tell me do those look like birthdates to you? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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