@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @rqm@exquisite.social @stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social @littlefedi_official@littleone.littlefedi.social We're in that heaven of love where we argue to learn & grow all ways here Thinking about it, random | hash is probably poorer than random | base64 - provided your source of randomness isn't utter garbage, coz you're adding potential weakness of the hash function to the already-there potential weakness of the randomness source. Adding a same-source random salt doesn't change that. As said, this is *the* use case for the mktemp(3) family of functions.