On Saturday 14 June 2014 19:06:40 Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote, On 06/14/2014 01:04 PM: > > If you just want purely random passwords, though, you might try > > makepasswd instead. pwgen is more biased towards generating > > distinguishable, memorable passwords instead of truly random ones. > > Here's a way to generate a *truly* random password that is *also* > memorable: > > http://diceware.com > > Instead of using your computer to generate allegedly random bits, you > use five six-sided dice to generate truly random bits.
But: a) that will generate numeric only, and in the decimal system, which is what is used on normal six-sided dice, that is permutations of only 10 characters and b) you are assuming that the dice are not in any way loaded, which is unlikely. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201406151135.05095.lisi.re...@gmail.com
