Hi, Check for the "pronounceables" password generator at
http://www.multicians.org/thvv/gpw.html You could easily modify the source code (Java and C)in order to generate stronger passwords (add special and numeric characters). You could also create your own "common phrases or words" and take them as a source in order to generate random and "pronounceable" passwords. Best Regards, CVC # -----Original Message----- # From: Sumit Dhar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] # Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:35 AM # To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Subject: Password Generation Procedure? # # # Hello Everyone, # # Generating a password that is hard to guess is a challenge # most of us have to face sometime or the other. I initially # used to think names of arbit characters from novels were a # good password till a friend showed me the cracked version of # my password. # # That got me thinking till I came up with a good way to # generate passwords. What I would do would be to take a long # song that I remembered easily and use the first letter of # each word in that song. # # So Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You became ngcmlfy. The # advantage of this method was the password was certainly not # "predictable" even if someone saw 75% of my passwd. What I # mean is just yesterday, I saw a friend type f?o?o2??0. A few # tries later, I could guess it was frodo2000. With password # like ngcmlfy, such guessing becomes difficult. To make things # even tougher, you could add initials of the singer George # Benson to the password. ngcmlfygb is even better. You can # remember it easily, but unless the other chap knows the # concept behind it, he will have a hard time remembering it # even if he sees all the letters. # # Given most of the people on this list must be paranoid, I am # sure they have such algorithms to generate such passwords. So # would you step forward and care to explain some nice methods # by which you generate your passwords. The best algorithm wins # a beer from me in India. :)) # # On a side note, I wonder why someone has not taken a list of # songs, poems, famous movies, novels etc and fed it to a # dictionary program for a password cracker. # # Cheers, # <a href=http://dhar.homelinux.com/dhar/>Sumit Dhar</a> # Manager, Business Development and Products, # SLMsoft.com #
