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For sufficiently recent versions of shuf. It looks (... at a skim of the history, I could be confused) like older versions use pid, ppid, uid, gid, and time.
by dllthomas 6y ago
For sufficiently recent versions of shuf. It looks (... at a skim of the history, I could be confused) like older versions use pid, ppid, uid, gid, and time. In that case that's likely to be more practical than brute force if you've generated a password with notionally more than ~40 bits of entropy.
That said, I suspect most people are indeed on a platform with a sufficiently recent version of shuf.
(And a sufficiently old version may lack the random-source option.)
- ThA0x2 6y agoRHEL 6 will be EOLd this November. That's the last supported version of RHEL that has this issue. Ubuntu 13.04, RHEL 7 and later don't suffer from this issue. I'd say almost everyone reading these comments is on a platform that does not suffer from this issue.