Password generation

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> > Of Jay R. Ashworth
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:38:56PM -0400, GCC wrote:
> > > Does anyone have a routine to generate a password 
> > preferably in a form 
> > > like rock444Dog.

You specifically want dictionary words surrounded by numbers, with altered
case?  Dictionary attacks are frequent, and most C2 and G3 standards balk
at the very concept, based on password weakness.

What trade-off are you looking at between security and memorability?

Further, do you have a hard spec to which this could be written?  Saying,
"Like rock444Dog," is an example, but not a specification in and of itself.
It does not lend itself to absolute confidence in algorithmic
determination.  (IOW, that's my way of saying you can't write something
decent based on one example--what are your absolute generalised criterion
for this process?)

> I should have listed the platform: it is windows and I can't shift to a *nix
> platform.
> 
> So.......

So it all depends what you want to do...rely on fP, or is an external
program okay?  If the latter, it shouldn't be hard to bang out something,
given a solid hard-and-fast spec.

mark->
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