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FreewareTown.com

2004-10-03, 7:47 am

Free Random Password Generator
http://www.sharewareisland.com/randompasswords.aspx

Paul A Sand

2004-10-03, 5:55 pm

In article <d4469d0d.0410030215.2dde921b@posting.google.com>, FreewareTown.com wrote:
> Free Random Password Generator
> http://www.sharewareisland.com/randompasswords.aspx

APG is better: http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/

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Lew Pitcher

2004-10-03, 5:55 pm

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Paul A Sand wrote:
> In article <d4469d0d.0410030215.2dde921b@posting.google.com>,
FreewareTown.com wrote:
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> APG is better: http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/

How about
dd if=/dev/random ibs=6 count=1 2>/dev/null | mimencode
?

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Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/)
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James T. Dennis

2004-10-04, 6:02 pm

FreewareTown.com <Spam2@sharewareisland.com> wrote:
> Free Random Password Generator
> http://www.sharewareisland.com/randompasswords.aspx

Here's a simple one:

#!/bin/bash
## JimD: Sun Oct 3 18:12:36 PDT 2004
## Generate a reasonable password of the form: foo@bar where
## foo is some short word (less than six letters long), @ is some
## bit of punctuation, and bar is some other word (of any length)

WORDFILE="${1:-/usr/share/dict/words}"
PUNCT='!"#$%&()+,-./:;<=>@[\\]^_`{|}~'"'"
PUNCTLEN="${#PUNCT}"
set -- $( echo $PUNCT | sed 's/$.$/\1 /g' )
shift $(( $RANDOM % $PUNCTLEN + 1 ))
WORDLEN=$( wc -l $WORDFILE | { read x y; echo $x;} )
PW=$( sed -n "$(( $RANDOM % $WORDLEN + 1))p" $WORDFILE )$1
PW=$PW$( sed -n "$(( $RANDOM % $WORDLEN + 1))p" $WORDFILE )
echo "$PW"

I wouldn't put it in any programming contests, it's only tested
under bash and not terribly elegant. With a little extra
effort I could remove the dependencies on wc and sed, so it would use
nothing but shell built-ins (for almost all modern Bourne shells).

Besides it will only generate a few hundred billion passwords with
my paltry little 100,000 word list.

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Jim Dennis,
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