How are “random” passwords generated

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I mean if it’s generated by some piece of code that would imply it follows some methodology or algorithm to come up with something. How could that be random? Random is that which is unpredictable.

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a lot of the time the algorithm starts with some randomly derived data – things like the last few bits on the clock (2/6/2024 08:15.325 – grab out 815325 and then start doing math on it from there) are a good source that’s usually available, as are temperature or fan speed or any other data derived from the outside world that is near impossible to predict.

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