Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator
Vladimir Stavrinov <vstavrinov@gmail.com> writes:
> To advantage of this utility points it's name: "READABLE password
> generator". If You can read (i.e. to pronounce), then it is easy for
> remembering. But "readable" doesn't means "weak" - it is strong enough
> as long as dictionary is available for consulting to exclude words from
> out of there.
Debian already has the apg package, which purports to do the same thing
and is a compiled C binary, so doesn't have the various problems with
grep. Is the readability of the passwords generated by rpg really
sufficiently better than than apg's pronounceable password generation
algorithm to warrant yet another package?
apg uses Morrie Gasser's algorithm from A Random Word Generator For
Pronounceable Passwords (National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
AD-A-017676).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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