Re: Secure random ID generation

From: Valdis.Kletnieksat_private
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 12:22:20 PST

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On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 14:28:40 CST, Alex Russell <alexat_private>  said:
> why not just base64 encode some string of abritrary length from /dev/random?

Not all systems have a /dev/random.

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