On Sunday 08 July 2001 18:44, peter k. wrote:
<snip>
> > > it is not, for example, i just generated that *using my brain*:
> > > "s4k1f62rni7q"
> > > tell me why it isnt random!!!
<snip>

And why should we use the brain if we have

$ head -c16 /dev/random | md5sum

or 

$ head -c16 /dev/random | mimencode

??

Marc

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