Comments on: Random Passwords May Not Be So Random http://gigaom.com/apple/random-passwords-may-not-be-so-random/ Fri, 25 May 2012 16:56:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew Hedges http://gigaom.com/apple/random-passwords-may-not-be-so-random/#comment-307725 Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:29:24 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/06/random-passwords-may-not-be-so-random/#comment-307725 FWIW, my password generation widget, Make-A-Pass, seeds its RNG algorithm using /dev/random … truly random, highly secure:

http://andrew.hedges.name/widgets/

]]> By: Dalle http://gigaom.com/apple/random-passwords-may-not-be-so-random/#comment-307723 Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:26:29 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/06/random-passwords-may-not-be-so-random/#comment-307723 you might also use the password creator in keychain there you can see the security of the password aswell

]]> By: Kevin Ballard http://gigaom.com/apple/random-passwords-may-not-be-so-random/#comment-307724 Wed, 07 Sep 2005 05:11:20 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/06/random-passwords-may-not-be-so-random/#comment-307724 Note: it’s not repetitive because it’s a flawed RNG algorithm, it’s repetitive because it always starts with the same seed each time the Dock is restarted, and there’s no way to change the seed.

However, that’s no excuse for these widgets. They could easily (well, by using system() which requires declaring it needs shell access, but that’s not a big deal) just grab input from /dev/random, which is a great random number source and does not have the problems of Math.random().

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