<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Some motherboards and newer Intel processors have special hardware to read from an electrical arc to generate random data.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:8px;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: tom <thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com> </div><div>Date:05/24/2014 1:17 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Central OH Linux User Group - 432xx <colug-432@colug.net> </div><div>Subject: [colug-432] Random Generator </div><div><br></div>I decided to change my Ebay password. After reading the timely password <br>survey discussion, and other sources I decided to use a lengthy random <br>password.<br><br>dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=48 2>/dev/null | base64 -w 0 | rev | cut -b <br>2- | rev<br>jdLtcA0QawkgrYWDWkMEhAy9JCPX0hCwU/H0emcTew7QuTowMLax1tzKiqsFWhh<br><br><br>I wanted to see if that length exceeded ebay's limit. No I am not going <br>to use that password. While writing it down I noticed elements that <br>could qualify as dictionary words: awk, ME, JCP, emc, Tow, Lax.<br><br>I then went for a shorter password. It appears to be more random:<br><br> dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=32 2>/dev/null | base64 -w 0 | rev | cut <br>-b 2- | rev<br>nEh2cXZ+qb648Im9GbOh4i3Ls88TNKcKPraq4vp4TkY<br><br>Looks like the first command line is running out of resources in my <br>laptop. It was last booted 10 days ago. Dell Inspiron 1520. Pentium <br>DualCore 64 bit. @ GB RAM.<br><br>Is there a better command line to produce a random password? Anything I <br>can do with my laptop to produce more randomness, like increase the <br>number of processes running?<br><br>Tom<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>colug-432 mailing list<br>colug-432@colug.net<br>http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432<br></body>