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Joey Hess 2018-07-03 12:29:57 -04:00
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@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ I strangely could not find out *where* exactly gpg is called in that way. All i
I was hoping this was something git-remote-gcrypt would be doing, but it's not: this is git-annex calling. Maybe some off-by-one conversion error somewhere?
Thank you for your time... -- [[anarcat]]
> [[closing|done]] --[[Joey]]

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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 1"""
date="2018-07-03T16:23:05Z"
content="""
This is implemented in Utility.Gpg.genRandom. There is no off-by-one,
git-annex intentially makes the same default choices that gnupg does
about random quality.
--fast makes it use /dev/urandom for people who lean on that side of the
entropy controversy. initremote's man page documents this.
("Some people recommend" is often not a good basis for security defaults.
Some people recommend using RDRAND and trusting Intel...)
"""]]