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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Worm/Passwords
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Date: 25 Nov 88 23:22:07 GMT
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In article <13169@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
: I once hacked together a program that used tables of letters which commonly
: followed one another in English to create random but (usually) pronounceable
: passwords.
:            The program is dust now, along with the computer it ran on (OSI
: SuperBoard II, 8K BASIC!) but I should be able to recreate the program with
: a little thinking.
:
: A possible enhancement is to use phonemes instead of letters, thus
: increasing the chances of a pronounceable password.  It could be combined
: with a phoneme-to-letter table which could randomly (or maybe not so
: randomly, depends on how much time I want to put in it) choose between
: alternative representations (f/ph, etc.) of a phoneme.

Save yourself some effort. Go hunt up a `travesty' program. (I think
that was the name.) I recall seeing them in some computer magazines in
the last year or so, and didn't I see one get posted?  You ought to
be able to modify one to create pronouncable passwords with only a
little effort.

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Bill
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