[sf-perl] OT: Secure password storage

Steve Fink sphink at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 10:42:39 PST 2009


Or if you fear the openssl command line, as I do, there's always

  dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=1 | base64

I suppose openssl rand is probably more trustable for randomness. Best
would be /dev/random, but you might have quite a wait if you use
that...

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:23 AM, David Alban <extasia at extasia.org> wrote:
> heh.  i sure did.  thanks.
>
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> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Randal L. Schwartz
> <merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:
>> You missed "openssl rand -base64 1024", eh?
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