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Powershell 1-liner to generate random n-byte key from Windows command line
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| // Windows equivalent to Linux/Mac: echo $(head -c 64 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr -d '\n') | |
| // Get-Random in Windows 10/Server 2016 PowerShell uses a CSPRNG seed by default. | |
| // Prior to PS 5.1, seed was system clock. | |
| // For Win 10/2016+ | |
| powershell -command "[Convert]::ToBase64String((1..64|%{[byte](Get-Random -Max 256)}))" | |
| // For Win 8.x/2012 | |
| powershell -command "$r=[byte[]]::new(64);$g=[System.Security.Cryptography.RandomNumberGenerator]::Create();$g.GetBytes($r);[Convert]::ToBase64String($r)" | |
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