[Cryptography] A use for the 'Any' key?
Ray Dillinger
bear at sonic.net
Fri Mar 27 02:36:34 EDT 2026
Apropos of nearly nothing, it is very well known that humans really suck
at generating random keys or passwords, even if they try. Contrary to
the experience of every parent, randomness just isn't built into us by
default.
An 'any' key might actually be useful - a tiny little thing with one
button on it, which plugs in via USB and tells the computer it's a
keypad. And sends one randomly selected character every time it's pressed.
Of course, it's just a convenience, to save a little time over the
appropriate command line invocation. But some folks might find it useful
as a keyboard macro. It amuses me that an 'any' key might actually be
useful.
Bear
Just ruminatin', got nothing terribly important to say and thought y'all
might be amused.
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