On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 15:54:40 -0600,
Edmund <ebacon-xlii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Great! a simple, dumb program can generate all your passwords in very
> quickly. My 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 did it in under 10 minutes. A token set of
> 16 characters, and a fixed length of 8 charachters just isnt a very big
> search space.
If you are worried about that you shouldn't be using any old random number
generator either. I doubt the plain random function is cryptographicly
secure. You want want to use something like /dev/random as a source.
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