From: spamtrap42@jacob21819.net   
      
   On 2012-06-13, unruh  wrote:   
   > On 2012-06-13, Robert Riches  wrote:   
   >> On 2012-06-13, Moe Trin  wrote:   
   >>> ...   
   >>>   
   >>> I just love brain-dead features like that.  If you've been following   
   >>> the stupidity being revealed about the LinkedIn password fiasco, one   
   >>> researcher discovered some of the exposed passwords were apparently   
   >>> produced by an ancient and highly b0rken program called "mkpasswd".   
   >>   
   >> Okay, _WHAT_ is wrong with mkpasswd?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Bad random number generator? Eg, rand, which has 32K different values.   
   > That is not much these days.   
      
   A 15-bit seed random number generator to generate passwords?   
   That's insane!  It should come with a warning label.  One would   
   get more entropy by flailing at the keyboard with eyes closed.   
      
   Why doesn't it just read from /dev/random?   
      
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   Robert Riches   
   spamtrap42@jacob21819.net   
   (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)   
      
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