Password generator

Posted by Nick Gammon on Mon 05 Feb 2001 06:39 PM — 1 posts, 7,595 views.

Australia Forum Administrator #0
You can use the character-name generator to generate random passwords as well. If you need a password for your new character, just generate a random character name.

If you are worried that someone will work through all possible names, make yourself a special "character names file" with just random words in it, which will be randomly joined by the character-name generator.

Your file could look like this:



[start]
8jds
asfn
4jju
asfj
[middle]
5684
b88d
clgk
[end]
fjbu
bjyg
3939
[stop]



Of course, you would want more entries in each section, or there would only be a few hundred possible combinations.

You could save your file as "passwords.txt" and choose that as your "names file" when you need a random password.

What the character-name generator does is combine a randomly-chosen word from each of the three sections "[start]", "[middle]", and "[end]".