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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:19:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
To:        Guido van Rooij <Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com>
Cc:        Jeff Aitken <jaitken@cslab.vt.edu>, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pronouncable password generator
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.94.970220141526.20631A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <199702201112.MAA23985@bsd.lss.cp.philips.com>

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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Guido van Rooij wrote:

> Jeff Aitken wrote:
> > I vaugely recall someone posting the source code to a very simple
> > pronouncable password generator some time ago, but I can't seem to find
> > any reference to it any more (the only thing I found on www.freebsd.org
> > was a reference to npasswd, which AFAIK doesn't do this).  
> > 
> > Anyone know of such a beast?
> 
> Look on the web for fips181
> 
> E.g.:
> ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/doc/security/fips181.txt

Ouch that's some ugly code... I new I was in trouble as soon as I saw 
#include <dos.h>

and later came across intdos() calls... haven't seen those in a while!!

-Mark

> 
> -Guido
> 
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