Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by rmk2 on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @09:18PM (#6852249)

This is not meant as criticism: Is there any particular reason for all the tr pipes? Is there any advantage to using tr instead of base64?

I essentially use the following:

  base64 </dev/urandom | head -c $COUNT | xargs -0

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by thrill on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @09:30PM (#6852296)

Criticism welcome. Yours is nicer.

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by jackalope on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @09:39PM (#6852333)

I use this for a little more entropy:

    LANG=C tr -dc "[:print:]" < /dev/urandom | fold -w 32 | head -n 1

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