* Stephanie Maks <steph_at_maksystems.com> on Tue, 11 Dec 2001
| Password Length: 4 - 24 characters
| Alpha / Numeric / Alphanumeric 3 choices, A N AN
| Case Sensitive Yes or No
Number of characters
Lowercase letters allowed
Uppercase letters allowed
Numbers allowed
Symbols allowed
This makes strong passwords but bad ones because they cannot be easilly
remembered.
There is a better algorithm available. It builds passwords by scanning a
dictionary file (like the Unix /usr/dict/words) for single letters,
bigraphs and trigraphs, building an index, and then randomly generating
pronounceable nonsense words. For example:
~> gpw 1 20
dentersegusecinaters
The C++ source code for gpw and the trigraph scanner are pretty simple, and
they appear to be in the public domain. Anyone want it to work from?
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Rat <ratinox_at_peorth.gweep.net> \ Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an
Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ unknown glowing substance which fell to
PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ Earth, presumably from outer space.
That and five bucks will get you a small coffee at Starbucks.
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