Re: Password Generator

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:50:23 -0400, Ryan Styles <Ryan@xxxxxxxxxx>
waffled on about something:

>Hi all.
>
>I need to make a password generator which supports plain text, numeric
>and alphanumeric. Can anyone give me a steer in the right direction so
>I can find my way in coding this? A link to a resource would be
>helpful. Just anything to get me going on learning.
>
>The plain text part does not have to be actual words. Just things like
>"hootaygo" would be acceptable. Just something simple to learn and
>wrap my head around. I figure it would be something to show me more on
>how to work with arrays and whatnot.
>
>FYI:
>Delphi 5 Enterprise on Windows XP, all updates installed (both XP and
>Delphi).
>
>Many thanks in advance.
>
>
>-- Ryan

If you're after really tough passwords, then that'll be the random
mixed case alphanumeric. However they're impossible to remember and
get written down on post-it notes under keyboards.

The usual trade off is a double dictionary with a 2 digit number
thrown in for good measure.
e.g. apple36brake

Which would foil the brute force dictionary attack, but still remain
easy to remember without a post-it.

I'm not sure if gluing together some English phonetics is going to
produce anything tougher or more memorable.

Plus I'm sure "hootaygo" would get broken by a Geordie dictionary
attack. :-)

Dodgy.
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