From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 20 14:16:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27078 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:16:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27071 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:16:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA01332; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:20:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199811202220.OAA01332@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Password generator In-Reply-To: <19981120230112.A10600@radio-do.de> from Frank Nobis at "Nov 20, 1998 11: 1:12 pm" To: fn@radio-do.de (Frank Nobis) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:20:11 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Frank Nobis: > On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 07:42:55PM +0100, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Oleg Ogurok wrote: > > > > > > Hy, > > > >I'm looking for a password generator. > > > >Does anybody know where I can found one? > > > > > > > Well, you can look into a source code of DES, Kerberos, etc. > > > Also, download Apache sources and look into "htpasswd" source. > > > > Hmmm.. I think he asked about something as routines present e.g. in SCO, > > and used in their standard passwd(1) program - they are able to generate > > passwords which are pronouncable (they even give example pronounciation), > > but don't form any sensible word. > > > > Well, for now we don't have anything like this. > > > I have attached a simple source of such a password generator. > > I don't no where I first got it, but here it is. > Yuck. No capital letters. No special characters. No numbers. This limits your search space. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message