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Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 14:34:02 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>
>> What do you suggest? Should I use mktemp to get the random values
>> instead? Why is it insecure? Is ${RANDOM} predictable?
>>
> first, $RANDOM is a bashism
> second, it gives you an integer between 0 and 32767.
>
> I don't understand your comment about mktemp. mktemp creates files, not
> passwords.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
mktemp does NOT creates a file, AFAIK. It just gives you a name of a
file randomly, that you can later create, used and destroy. That can be
used to get random values. I used it in the past, and it works pretty
well. Do you think it would be good this way, like I do?
What is the best (or standard) way to get a random passphrase or random
value?
Thomas
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