Re: Generating random values.

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Edmund <ebacon-xlii(at)onesystem(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Generating random values.
Date: 2005-08-18 16:59:32
Message-ID: 20050818165932.GA32613@wolff.to
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 15:54:40 -0600,
Edmund <ebacon-xlii(at)onesystem(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Great! a simple, dumb program can generate all your passwords in very
> quickly. My 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 did it in under 10 minutes. A token set of
> 16 characters, and a fixed length of 8 charachters just isnt a very big
> search space.

If you are worried about that you shouldn't be using any old random number
generator either. I doubt the plain random function is cryptographicly
secure. You want want to use something like /dev/random as a source.

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