Re: Random Password Generation script

1998-03-26 Thread William T Wilson
On 26 Mar 1998, James Youngman wrote: > The trouble with this is that it places a strong relationship between > successive passwords. This means that the breaking of one password > can be fatal; the knowledge of one password allows you to break the What's even worse, the bad guy has only to obt

Re: Random Password Generation script

1998-03-26 Thread dkc
Hi, Here's something I put together in perl some time ago - feel free to use it if you like. As always, no warranties express or implied, your mileage may vary, etc, etc. Cheers! Deke cut here: #!/pkg/perl5/bin/perl -w

Re: Random Password Generation script

1998-03-26 Thread James Youngman
> "dkc" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dkc> open(OUTFILE, ">passwords.txt") || die "can't open output file"; dkc> for (; $count > 0; $count--) { dkc> for ($loop = 0; $loop < $length; $loop ++) { dkc> $temp = int(rand 60) + 1; dkc> print OUTFILE $characters[$temp]; dkc>