Re: [bug-bash] $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

[Martijn Dekker]

Op 16-01-19 om 02:21 schreef Quentin:
> If you really need some quality CSPRNG values, I'd suggest adding a
> $SECURE_RANDOM variable that just reads from /dev/urandom.

IMHO, this would clearly be the correct approach. I don't know of any
21st century Unix or Unix-like system that doesn't have /dev/urandom. I
would really like to see shells adopt this idea -- hopefully all with
the same variable name.

- M.