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Re: One-line password generator



Le nonidi 9 fructidor, an CCXXV, Brian a écrit :
>  echo 'secretpassword' |

echo 'secretpassword site-name'

>			   sha256sum - | base64

Very bad: since sha256sum outputs its result in hexadecimal, it only has
half the entropy it seems to have. The same thing with Perl's
Digest::b64digest would be much better.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George

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