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Date:      Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:41:54 -0500
From:      "David E. Cross" <crossd@o2.cs.rpi.edu>
To:        Allen Smith <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
Cc:        dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>, ee123@rocketmail.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Password generator
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.05.9811202039100.16490-100000@o2.cs.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9811201850.ZM5103@beatrice.rutgers.edu>

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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Allen Smith wrote:

> On Nov 20,  6:21pm, dannyman (possibly) wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 08:39:16AM -0800, EE wrote:
> > >   Hy,
> > > I'm looking for a password generator.
> > > Does anybody know where I can found one?
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > This is actually a labotomised function call that's part of a script I wrote
> > to add users to our system.  It generates a random password if the user
> > doesn't supply one.
> 
> IIRC, the original requestor was wanting one that would produce
> _pronouceable_ passwords. I don't have one, but the following is an
> improved version of the above (written for about the same purpose):

There is actaully a standard for doing this, FIPS-181.  You can get a
version of this, fully implimented in C at the following:
http://192.35.156.12/

After filling that out choose 'ENTER THE ARCHIVE HERE', once there choose
'FIPS181'.  Have fun, that program could use some work, but it is an
excellent start.

--
David Cross


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