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Password generators

• My original question
  
  
• Rick Dempster (red@crunch.usgmrl.ksu.edu) suggests genpass and sent me the code consisting of genpass.c and random.c. (950809)
• Jack Valko (valko@cyberspace.com) suggests an archie search for pwgen. (950809)
• Philip Plane (P.J.Plane@massey.ac.nz) sent a perl program for Solaris 2.x. (950810)
• Michael Bennett (Michael.Bennett@mail.esrin.esa.it) sent his random_generator written for korn shell. (950810)
• Christian Gresser (gresser@informatik.uni-muenchen.de) sent a perl subroutine that he uses himself, another perl program that his friend uses and htpasswd.c (950810)
• Jim McLean-Lipinski (jrml@dps.state.vt.us) thinks he have just what I'm looking for, will generate accounts, NIS+ credentials, and random passwords. His scripts are named descred, homeservers, new_user_nis+, pwgen and exppasswd. However descred requires a program called expect. (950810 and 950817)
• Jochen Bern (bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de) sent his password.c which is "more inclined to secure, really random passwords which might not be easy to learn". (950816)
• Bill Reed (reedwv@expu79.stp.xfi.bp.com) sent me randpass.c. (950817)
• Neil Clifford (n.clifford1@physics.oxford.ac.uk) suggest trying a comp.sources.misc archive site.

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