[Slackbuilds-users] apg-2.2.3 automated password generator

[Jude DaShiell]

One improvement that could be done to all of these password generators
is to make sure every password starts with a letter and ends with a
letter.  That makes passwords more difficult by a little to crack.  The
reason for that is mathematics.  Numbers and special symbols have a set
size of 42 32 special symbols and 10 digits.  Letters have a set size of
52 all lower-case and upper-case and the underscore.  Why the underscore
is understood as a letter by some people I don't know I would have
thought that would have been a special symbol.

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019, Peter Dambier wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:25:14
> From: Peter Dambier <peter at peter-dambier.de>
> To: slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org
> Subject: [Slackbuilds-users] apg-2.2.3 automated password generator
>
> I am missing apg.
>
> is it this one?
>
> Automated Password Generator (APG)
>
> PublishedOctober 5, 1993
> Charles Dinkel
> Withdrawn on October 19, 2015
>
> Here is a document including the source
>
> https://www.nist.gov/publications/automated-password-generator-apg
>
> There are many sources all the same md5sum in the internet.
>
> e.g. from Fossies the fresh open source software archive.
>
> https://fossies.org/linux/privat/old/apg-2.2.3.tar.gz
>
> The old (14.1) apg.SlackBuild works on my 32 bit Slackware Current.
>
>
> Can we trust NIST? I remember was an issue with tuned random number
> generators. But you can always add a SheBang to the suggested password.
> I know me own internal password generator depends on blood pressure and
> sugar and is far less trustworthy.
>
> If the maintainer has gone away I am willing to toke it.
>
> Cheers
> Peter
>
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