[Gllug] Random password generation

[jim]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, David Irvine wrote:

> Bruce Richardson wrote:
> >Management asked me to remove that option because some staff were 
> >spending all their time generating passwords.  Ho hum.
> >
> What about integrating two words the same size together, so for example 
> big hat would become bhiagt  and you could reverse it as well, and add 
> random charecters or go for the 1337 approach.  

How about using the ELITE random planet name generation algorithm? I'm
sure it's fairly thoroughly documented somewhere. I remember I wrote a
version of it myself once, unfortunately lost to a hard disc crash.

8-) jim
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