Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!news.uzoreto.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.misc Subject: Re: Do you use a password manager? Date: 22 Jul 2021 08:46:19 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <875yx31n28.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <8735s7jiwd.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hvRpVNrPYhsmL1zJJwujpwnh3CGfmPMn9iq0mQxm09JMsoqxwC Cancel-Lock: sha1:7S/1KJmvFGk0ge3pmkyPUpz+EUI= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:137325 comp.sys.mac.misc:8151 comp.unix.misc:326 comp.misc:21119 On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 01:23:46 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > Bob Eager writes: > >> On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:31:11 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote: >> >>> I use a couple of programs I wrote to generate random passwords and >>> passphrases: >>> >>> https://github.com/Keith-S-Thompson/random-passwords >>> >>> It's two Perl scripts. gen-password generates random passwords with >>> specified criteria, and gen-passphrase generates xkcd-style random >>> word sequences using the system dictionary or a specified one. >> >> I use dicewords and a set of casino dice. > > What do you do when the password is restricted as is so often the case? It provides a basis to which I add stuff. Jitsi does similar when choosing a random 'room' name, although I haven't looked at the code. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org