From 6d3fb5720f45ddd114dad237573e055a303fada5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: EuAndreh <eu@euandre.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 04:47:43 -0300
Subject: bin/{uuid,gen-password}: Use /dev/urandom over /dev/random

As Thomas Pornin eloquently put it[0]:

> use /dev/urandom and be happy; use /dev/random and be sorry

[0]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3936/is-a-rand-from-dev-urandom-secure-for-a-login-key
---
 bin/gen-password | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'bin/gen-password')

diff --git a/bin/gen-password b/bin/gen-password
index 758845c..244d971 100755
--- a/bin/gen-password
+++ b/bin/gen-password
@@ -69,6 +69,6 @@ shift $((OPTIND - 1))
 
 LENGTH="${1:-999}"
 
-tr -cd '[:alnum:]' < /dev/random |
+tr -cd '[:alnum:]' < /dev/urandom |
 	fold -w "$LENGTH" |
 	head -n1
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