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To: Chode
but like i said, it’s good enough for MY needs

Totally understood. Sometimes nerds tend to over engineer things just because we can. The snippet I posted earlier was a way to come up with a pretty random string. The problem is, it is not reproducable at all. It will always give you a unique answer. I have a script around here that will basically take any string, and run it through a hashing program to generate a really strong key. I use something like that to periodically update my wifi password. If you do it once a month you could choose an input string like "March 2021", and it would generate you a very strong wifi password. You'd also be able to recreate it at any time, just by passing the month/year through the script.

I don't have visitors often, but I've figured out a way to incorporate all that nonsense into a script that will generate a QR code, so I can just say 'scan this to get on wifi'.

I really can't help being a nerd. It's kindof an illness. I think it's also genetic

10 posted on 03/01/2021 2:54:20 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

no no no, i meant as in good enough for me not good enough for military work...

where in cases like this “close enough for government work” does not apply.

you posted exactly what i was talking about, simple but elegant

unfortunately that is what we have come to

i copied the key from your homepage

thx again


11 posted on 03/01/2021 3:18:24 PM PST by Chode (Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
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