On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 05:59:17PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> And the advantage of your approach is you can make a serialNumber longer
> than 8 bytes.
No, because the shell doesn't do multi-precision arithmetic. However,
a small tweak does the job. For example, for 20 bytes:
$ printf "%02x%s\n" $(( 0x$(openssl rand -hex 1) & 0x7f )) $(openssl rand -hex 19)
0f8cf177eeab347c825a7ff7dfea6b1f2dd1df8c
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Viktor.
