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I'm probably missing something, but why md5 the output of /dev/random - won't it have the same entropy it started with?
by waldrews 17y ago
I'm probably missing something, but why md5 the output of /dev/random - won't it have the same entropy it started with?
- tsuraan 17y ago/dev/random is random bytes, so in order to make it typable, it's useful to convert it into characters. md5 is good for that. Alternatively, strings /dev/random|head gives some stuff that you can concatenate into a password.