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Subject: Re: Quickies
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 19 Aug 1998 12:00:28 -0500
To: "Frank P. Bresz" <fpb @ BreszLand . COM>
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: "Frank P. Bresz"'s message of "Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:57:13 -0400"
References: <199808191357.JAA24423@BreszLand.COM>

>>>>> "FPB" == Frank P Bresz <fpb@BreszLand.COM> writes:

FPB> FYI - You may want to stick a call to ``srand'' in there at the
FPB> beginning, Newer implementations of PERL do this for you, [...]

We actually require a perl version new enough to do this right.

This reminds me, does anyone have a module to overload perl's rand to use
the Linux /dev/random?  I don't like system dependencies, but if it can
work like Time::HiRes and let you use the same code whether the module
exists or not, then I'd like to use it.

Also, does anyone have any idea of the hackability of these methods?  How
much key space are we cutting out by making pronounceable passwords?

 - J<


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