From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:04:28 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Avoid early termination of the key
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Avoid early termination of the key

Newlines will end a zcrypt key early, which is bad. So delete them.

Thanks to Anders on -c rye -i ask-zephyr.d.
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diff --git a/make-zcrypt-key b/make-zcrypt-key
index 0a903f3..75ff68b 100755
--- a/make-zcrypt-key
+++ b/make-zcrypt-key
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2>/dev/null
+dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 | tr -d '\000\n' | head -c126 2>/dev/null