Mention the use of /dev/urandom on linux - pee - Pee a password manager;Pee - because you have to...
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(HTM) Author: Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:51:33 +0100
Mention the use of /dev/urandom on linux
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README.rst | 2 ++
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@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ The key is derived using the BLAKE2s_ key derivation function.
For symmertric encryption the tweetnacl library is used.
If running on OpenBSD, passwords are generated using OpenBSD's `arc4random()`__ RNG.
+If running on linux /dev/urandom will be used as a source of random bytes.
If running on any other OS /dev/random will be used as a source for random bytes.
Passwords are choosen from this set of characters "abcdefhijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890!@#$%^&*()-=~?/\|+,:.<>{}[]".
There are currently several password modes available that substract a subset of the above character set.
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ The modes are::
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__ http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/arc4random.3
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