How to generate user passwords

[Bill Vlahos]

Also thanks to Bjornke and Chris for your suggestions too.

Bill Vlahos
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On Apr 27, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> Nice. Thank you.
> 
> I want to add a feature to InfoWallet to generate passwords for a user so the user doesn't have to think them up. InfoWallet can manage the passwords and can automate login in to a web page or application using the Login Assistant feature with as little as 2 clicks. Your function generates very random strings which might be too random for a user to remember on their own.
> 
> I didn't know you can just specify "repeat theLength".
> 
> Bill Vlahos
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> On Apr 27, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> 
>> Bill,
>> 
>> I made this as part of another discussion about speakable passwords.
>> 
>> function speakablePassword theLength
>>    put "bcdfghjklmnprstwyz" into myConsonants
>>    put "aeiou" into myVowels
>>    put "" into myPass
>>    repeat myPasswordLength
>>         if char -1 of myPass is in myConsonants then
>>              if char -2 of myPass is in myConsonants or \
>>                  length(myPass = 9) then
>>                   put any char of myVowels after myPass
>>              else
>>                   if any item of "true,false" then
>>                        put any char of myVowels after myPass
>>                   else
>>                        put any char of myConsonants after myPass
>>                   end if
>>              end if
>>         else
>>              put any char of myConsonants after myPass
>>         end if
>>    end repeat
>>    return myPass
>> end speakablePassword
>> 
>> Since you didn't say what you want to use the passwords for, I don't know if this will be helpful, but I'm posting it anyway.
>> 
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Mark Schonewille
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>> On 27 apr 2011, at 20:45, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>> 
>>> Before I reinvent the wheel, has anyone written a routine to generate passwords that they would be willing to share?
>>> 
>>> Bill Vlahos
>> 
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