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Subject: Re: Quickies
From: <dlaliberte @ gte . com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:03:29 -0400 (EDT)
To: "William R. Dickson -- System Administration" <wdickson @ nwnexus . net>
Cc: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>, Norbert Bollow <nb @ thinkcoach . com>, majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <v0310280fb200d5d308fa@[206.63.47.20]>
References: <199808190947.LAA00369@quill><ufaww84gbjx.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu><v0310280fb200d5d308fa@[206.63.47.20]>

Everyone seems to have a contribution for this quickie issue...

William R. Dickson -- System Administration writes:
 > We've got a program in use here that generates nonsense passwords, but
 > they're designed to be at least somewhat pronounceable.  IE:
 > 
 > yayuRiHu
 > cewOGIvO
 > kOxeQoja
 ...

Cool.  However, a few characters that should be left out are
oO08BiIlL15S2Z.  Hard to tell which is which, depending on the display
font used.  That could be an advantage if you happen to know, but if we
are assigning random passwords, the receiver doesn't know what they are
being given.

 > I can probably find the source code if you like.

I'm interested.

dan


References:
  • Re: Quickies
    From: Norbert Bollow <nb@thinkcoach.com>
  • Re: Quickies
    From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu>
  • Re: Quickies
    From: "William R. Dickson -- System Administration" <wdickson@nwnexus.net>
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