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Shell alias to generate cryptographically strong strings for passwords/keys (needs Python2)
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| # Put the line below in your ~/.profile | |
| # You can then say "genrandstr 10" to get a string of 10 random bytes, base64 encoded. | |
| # Works on macOS, should work on Linux as long as there's Python 2.x installed. | |
| # | |
| alias genrandstr="python2 -c 'import sys,os,base64;print len(sys.argv)==2 and base64.b64encode(os.urandom(int(sys.argv[1]))) or \"Usage: genrandstr <numbytes>\"'" |
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