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Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

hexdump -vn32 -e'4/4 "%08X" 1 "\n"' /dev/urandom

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Vlady 2y ago

how do you use the output of this? Random upper case MD5?

53851E08272685B858339DFFE56CCBD2

2C68FB4E1AC71424DAC123837B4C609E

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Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

You run that command to generate random sequence of hex that you can use as a private key for Nostr accounts

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 2y ago

Use openssl rand -hex 32 for better security 🐶🐾🫡

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Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

Assuming openssl is installed

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 2y ago

99% of the time, it is! 🐶🐾🫡