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		rmk2 on Dec 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been co... This is not meant as criticism: Is there any particular reason for all the tr pipes? Is there any advantage to using tr instead of base64? I essentially use the following: `base64 </dev/urandom \| head -c $COUNT \| xargs -0`

thrill on Dec 5, 2013 [–]

Criticism welcome. Yours is nicer.

jackalope on Dec 5, 2013 | [–]

I use this for a little more entropy:

    LANG=C tr -dc "[:print:]" < /dev/urandom | fold -w 32 | head -n 1

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