Re: Generating random characters for a salt.

If you are on a UNIX flavor system give it a try reading /dev/random it is always generating random sequences (deterministic random okay but is really useful if you do not need quantum random)

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Re^2: Generating random characters for a salt. by Cap'n Steve (Friar) on Aug 31, 2007 at 06:23 UTC
I thought about that, but I'd like to keep it as cross-platform as possible. I know nul on Windows is the equivalent of /dev/null, but is there a random equivalent?	[reply]
Re^3: Generating random characters for a salt. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 31, 2007 at 13:37 UTC
No, there's no such device on Windows.	[reply]