Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)

[Jean Louis]

* Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> [2021-10-22 16:16]:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 19:56, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU
> Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Emacs Lisp is good enough to generate passwords just like
> > > `pwgen'
> >
> > Are there some agreed-upon, formal requirements to
> > a password generator?
> 
> The first rule of password generators is to use a crypto quality
> randomness generator. Which, as far as I can tell, Elisp’s ‘random’ is
> not, at least unless you do a ‘(random t)’ first. And maybe not even
> then.

For people interested, manual explains about randomity:
(info "(elisp) Random Numbers")

How I understand it, than it may be that neither `pwgen' is generating
truly random numbers. 

-- 
Jean

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