[Slackbuilds-users] apg-2.2.3 automated password generator
David O'Shaughnessy
lists at osh.id.au
Thu Nov 21 03:53:05 UTC 2019
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019, at 9:33 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 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.
It's hard to understand the logic of that:
a = 42 (numbers/symbols)
b = 52 (letters)
c = a + b = 94
a < b < c
So, draw from c.
--
Dave
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