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[Alan DeKok <2073269@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 16, 2024, at 4:14 PM, Seth Arnold <2073269@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When playing with the shell script I thought I noticed patterns in the last character of the output so I investigated further to make sure that these are actually emitting roughly what we expect:

  Due to the way that base64 works, the last character of the output
contains only 4 bits of the input randomness.  That's fine, because
we're depending on all of the 12 bytes from /dev/urandom for entropy.
We don't need the output base64 stuff to look completely random.  And it
won't look random, because it's using a limited character set: base64.

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  Replace radsecret script to avoid new perl dependencies from universe

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