On Pá, 2016-11-11 at 13:20 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> I think this is extreme overkill for something that doesn't need to
> be
> cryptographically sound. It literally just needs to be eight
> characters with a
> sensible random distribution. I considered using some non-reversible
> transformation of machine-id for this simply because I wanted to
> avoid trying to
> consume any of the entropy in /dev/random since we'd be doing this
> early in the
> installer (when entropy tends to be at a premium). Maybe that was
> overkill and I
> should just pull from /dev/random.
Please, please, do not mention use of /dev/random at all. Use
/dev/urandom.
--
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
Turkish proverb
(You'll never know whether the road is wrong though.)
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