Entropy: whats the difference between bits and bytes?
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If I use openssl
to generate some random data (for a keyfile, for example):
openssl rand -hex 2048 >/tmp/file
Is this 4097 bits (or bytes?) of entropy?
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username username 4097 Oct 30 20:01 /tmp/file
encryption openssl byte
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If I use openssl
to generate some random data (for a keyfile, for example):
openssl rand -hex 2048 >/tmp/file
Is this 4097 bits (or bytes?) of entropy?
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username username 4097 Oct 30 20:01 /tmp/file
encryption openssl byte
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If I use openssl
to generate some random data (for a keyfile, for example):
openssl rand -hex 2048 >/tmp/file
Is this 4097 bits (or bytes?) of entropy?
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username username 4097 Oct 30 20:01 /tmp/file
encryption openssl byte
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If I use openssl
to generate some random data (for a keyfile, for example):
openssl rand -hex 2048 >/tmp/file
Is this 4097 bits (or bytes?) of entropy?
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username username 4097 Oct 30 20:01 /tmp/file
encryption openssl byte
encryption openssl byte
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