[Klug-general] Nice little random password generator - apg

[Paul Lenton]

You know, I rather like that.
I especially like how it both makes the password pronouncable, and gives 
a pronunciation guide. Very clever!
The only problem that I can see with this is that the passwords don't 
all look that strong in some cases.

I'm not sure on how good the code behind the site is, but 
http://www.howsecureismypassword.net apparently measures entropy in a 
password and comes to a conclusion of how secure the password is.
The numbers are a little on the low side realistically, because they're 
based on a desktop PC cracking the password, but some of these passwords 
go as low as "6 years" (arbitrary values are arbitrary).

If the password has to be secure, rather than memorable (e.g. using a 
password manager) then apg -a 1 generates random passwords including 
numbers and letters and symbols which increases password etropy nicely.

I played around with something similar a while ago using python, and I 
still use it when I have to create a new password that I don't need to 
remember (only on my laptop, for some reason I never got around to 
setting up a password manager on my PC...) and it's available at 
https://gist.github.com/eckozero/d56b32b3bb62b0dcf96b#file-keygen-py if 
anyone is interested.

Cheers


On 17/12/14 15:25, Michael Sinclair wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just had to generate a new random password and found a neat little
> tool called apg.  Just type apg in your terminal to generate a few quick
> and neat random memorable passwords.  It may need to be installed it if
> its not already included.
>
> Hope this is useful,
>
> Mike
>
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