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Re: Automatic passphrase generation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pawel Krawczyk)
Thu May 4 15:23:59 2000
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 19:21:42 +0200
From: Pawel Krawczyk <kravietz@alfa.ceti.pl>
To: Rich Salz <salzr@certco.com>
Cc: Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net>, coderpunks@toad.com,
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.1000430215940.4971C-100000@haggis.ma.certco.com>; from salzr@certco.com on Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 10:08:07PM -0400
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Rich Salz wrote:
> For a bit of whimsy, I posted a program in 1989 to comp.sources.games
> that generated sonnets. Might be of interest. You can find it
> at ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.games/volume6/sonnet/part0[12].Z
As for the passphrase generation you can take a look at
ftp://ftp.ceti.pl/pub/linux/scripts/pwgen
It's a perl program producing passwords of given length, being
a compromise between dictionary words and random tongue-breakers.
Sample outputs:
8 characters:
GigyZiso
QehySoho
16 characters:
BateSusa-BisySisu
OdylaJizu-JohiKem
24 characters:
TypiCegyGyki-RuceWotaFyco
LaheLaceNiwu-JasoMikoRefi
--
Pawel Krawczyk, CETI internet, Krakow. http://ceti.pl/~kravietz/
