Howto generate a 128 bit key using dd
August 3rd, 2009
Use this line in your shell:
dd if=/dev/random count=16 bs=1 2> /dev/null | xxd -ps |
the output should look like(!) this:
2e3b6eb498ff125a5f1bbb4cbf35c43d |
dd
copies 16 bytes (count=16) from /dev/random and pipes stdout to xxd
which formats the 16 bytes to a hex-string. have fun! =)
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