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Free Random Password Generator
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| There's a plugin for Firefox that does this as well, though I haven't
tried it out...anyone used it yet?
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| Chris F.A. Johnson 2005-01-27, 7:54 am |
| On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 at 05:05 GMT, Spam2@Sharewareisland.com wrote:
> Free Random Password Generator
> http://www.sharewareisland.com/randompasswords.aspx
What does that offer that a simple shell script cannot?
(Apart from the lack of security that doing it over an unsecured
connection doesn't.)
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| Dave Hinz 2005-01-27, 5:52 pm |
| On 27 Jan 2005 11:20:34 -0800, Steev <Steve.Klabnik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Website here:
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> http://jgillick.nettripper.com/securepassword/
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> After trying it out, it's pretty awesome. This gets around Chris'
> comment about doing it over a secure connection, plus it has tons of
> options. Check it out!
It doesn't address the point of "why bother when it's simple to
do locally", though.
So...why bother, when a password generator script is so trivial?
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| It is local. It just brings up a dialog box in Firefox, which is where
I'm entering most of my passwords anyway.
As far as the script goes...I'd rather not write my own script when I
could just take the (almost literally) 5 seconds it takes to get a new
extension. I could write a script, but it wouldn't have the same number
of features (you can do a lot with that extension) or be graphical.
*shrug* Just a matter of preference, I guess...I personally have become
a fan.
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