Forcing password change on new users...

[John Vetterli]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:55:06 -0500
Taavi Burns <jaaaarel-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I've found apg to be most helpful at work.
> """
>        Default  algorithm is pronounceable password generation
> algorithm designed
>        by Morrie Gasser and described in A Random Word Generator  For 
> Pronounce-
>        able  Passwords National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
> AD-A-017676.
>        The original paper is very old and had never been put online,
> so I have to
>        use NIST implementation described in FIPS-181.
> """
> ...

I like to get my passwords by running text through a markov chain
program that uses individual characters as tokens instead of words. 
This gives you quite a few random nonsense "words" that are
pronounceable, and therefore easy to remember.

JV
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