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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Per Abrahamsen wrote:
> 
>> Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
>>
>> >    (setq canlock-password "hemmeligt")
>>
>> We would either need to generate the password automatically (and in a
>> not too easily predictable way), or alternatively prompt the user for
>> a password first time he post.  And if we prompt, we need a really
>> good formulation.
> 
> Customize auto-save it, initialized to something random [1]? But the user
> should then be informed about keeping .emacs read-protected in multi-user
> environments. Which is a can of worms that shouldn't be opened.  Sigh.
> 
> [1] There isn't a good PRNG available in elisp... Hm.  Maybe a random
> number library would be nice.

make-password.el by Jim Blandy lets you hit the spacebar an ungodly
number of times to generate the random seed.  Maybe this idea could be
stolen?

Henrik
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