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Re: [Nmh-workers] Message-IDs and Content-IDs

2012-07-19 08:33:28
Ralph wrote:

Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
Just read, say, 64 bytes from /dev/random and base64 encode it.

Would /dev/urandom suffice?  Entropy can be in short supply in some
environments, e.g. VMs, and given it's MH it may be being scripted to
send a few emails in a short time.

heirloom-mailx uses /dev/urandom with a fallback if it's not available.

/dev/urandom is fine.

64 bytes?  Though 64 bits seems too short.

David

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