Secure password generation...blasphemy!
Andrew Berry
andrewberry at sentex.net
Tue Aug 4 04:12:17 UTC 2009
On 3-Aug-09, at 10:28 PM, Modulok wrote:
> I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all
> about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing
> something...
Take a look at pwgen (it's in ports). If you're really needing *very*
secure passwords, it makes more sense to audit existing code then to
write your own. The passwords it generates can quite easily be strong
enough to prevent most automated attacks.
--Andrew
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