Re^2: YA random password generator :-)

Brian Westley brian at digi-g.UUCP
Tue Aug 28 03:27:07 AEST 1984


(response to criticism about using rogue scroll names as passwords)
Well, my rogue has an alphabet of 160 syllables, and each word in a
scroll is made up of 1-3 syllables.  Assuming you use only 3 syllable
passwords, this gives you 160^3 = 4,096,000 passwords.  This is
roughly comparable to 5 letter random passwords (26^5 = 11,881,376)
and much better than a random real word (about 40,000 'common' words).
Besides, didn't you see the :-) in the subject line?



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