Re: Generating random values. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Generating random values.
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Msg-id 20050818165932.GA32613@wolff.to
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In response to Re: Generating random values.  (Edmund <ebacon-xlii@onesystem.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 15:54:40 -0600,
  Edmund <ebacon-xlii@onesystem.com> 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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