On Wed, February 23, 2005 5:22 pm, Warren Myers said: > Howdy: > > I have been interested in cryptography for a long time, and know, as > I'm sure most of you do, that passwords tend to be the weak point of a > system. > > I recently wrote a password generator (available on my website > http://warrenmyers.com/pwd.php or in slightly different form > http://warrenmyers.com/stuff/pwd.zip, linux binary compressed) and am > wondering if any of you have come across other random password > generators, and what your experience in general of securing your > passwords and accounts has been. > > Thanks. > > Warren > -- > http://warrenmyers.com > "Don't let the elephants see what the rabbits are doing." --Ben R Rich > --
Sorry I hit send before I finished my thought. I don't claim to be a cryptographer, but it seems to me that if one were to use a password generator from somewhere. That it would lend more credence if you could verify the experience of the author within well know cryptographic circles. This is not to intimate that the password generator you have written is no good, it may be excellent, I don't know. I haven't looked at it and don't claim to be of sufficient knowledge to evaluate it. But when it comes to passwords and security. the level of scrutiny has to be elevated. Obviously other software you run could just as easily if not more so lead to security holes more than the password chosen. Matt -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
