Tag:entropy

on entropy, password/passphrase complexity, and if you’ve been part of a data breach (spoiler alert: you have)

Posted on 30 November 2017by merikebiCategories:education, personal, technical, work

I wrote an article on passwords, passphrases, entropy, and data breaches for my employer’s blog: https://augustschell.com/passwords-passphrases-complexity-length-crackability-memorability-data-breaches

improve your entropy pool in linux

Posted on 1 April 2016by merikebiCategories:technical, tutorial

A few years ago, I ran into a known issue with one of the products I use that manifests when the {{Red Hat Linux}} server it’s running on has a low entropy pool. And, as highlighted in that question, the steps I found 5 years ago didn’t work for me (turns out modifying the t …
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