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To be fair, at the bottom of the page he links to source and a zip that you can use to run internally if you so desire.

If it concerns you, then run it on your own machine.

The generation could still be deterministic in some way. I haven't looked over the code yet, so I don't know.

Even if it is securely created, there's nothing stopping the code being modified to some clients.

It would be neat to have something like this as JS application. Of course again you have to check the code or trust the author, but I think an audit would be possible.

This of course is JavaScript application. And it is downloadable and locally runnable (read footer on the website).

Great! Sorry for not checking.

That's the point of distributing the source code.

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