Re: One-line password generator

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Sat 26 Aug 2017 at 20:37:01 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. That is the sort of analysis I was after, (Although I will have
to work out why hexadecimal matters).

May I impose and ask how Digest::b64digest would be used in a command
line string of commands?

-- 
Brian.