[Gllug] Random password generation

Simon Trimmer simon at urbanmyth.org
Tue Sep 11 11:21:59 UTC 2001


On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, jim wrote:
> 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.

Probably offtopic but I'm feeling nostalgic :)

You could take a look at Ian Bell's Elite pages; the one that keeps getting
shutdown, he has a load of stuff in the file archive (e.g. "BBC 2nd Pro Elite
Sources") http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/


-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>


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