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Generate Entropy for GnuPG

Jan
22
2010
Submitted by Nick on Fri, 22nd Jan 2010, 12:52 There are no comments yet. Be the first!
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Has anyone every tried to generate a GPG (or GnuPG) key? I have… and I received this error…

Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 284 more bytes)

Generate random string in MySQL

Jul
10
2008
Submitted by Nick on Thu, 10th Jul 2008, 08:51 and has been commented on 3 times.
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Have you ever wanted to generate a random string in MySQL, say for assigning a random password to a list of users? Well here is a useful tip!

From Russia without Love

May
08
2007
Submitted by Nick on Tue, 8th May 2007, 10:37 and has been commented on 28 times.
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Spam With Cheese

I've recently been receiving some spam from some Russian IP's. As each spam attempt was from a different IP, blocking individual ones was a little futile and time consuming. I did a quick Google and ended up at Deekayen's website as it seems he has had similar issues. His solution was an Apache level "Deny"… My solution uses iptables.

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