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- From: gary@resumix.portal.com (Gary Lin)
- Subject: Re: random passwd generator
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.201437.7521@resumix.portal.com>
- Sender: news@resumix.portal.com
- Organization: Resumix Inc.
- References: <1992Sep4.170148.17469@trentu.ca>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 20:14:37 GMT
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- >ccksb@blaze.trentu.ca (Ken Brown) writes:
- > I'm looking for a program which will generate 'n' number of passwords.
-
- But never ever do what UCSC does for student accounts: generate passwords
- constructed from scrambled blocks of constant characters. Obviously, they
- were too brilliant to write a random generator. :P
-
- Which of course means, if a few smart CS students sit around and compare the
- initial passwords in their accounts, they can back-calculate the generation
- scheme and break into other people's accounts. Then lock out other people.
-
- Gary M. Lin
- gary@resumix.portal.com
-