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Posted by Keme on October 17, 2006, 6:22 pm
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Carmine782 wrote:
> A Passowrd Generator/Manager is security program that stores and
> suggests or genrates really strong passwords for all users on your
> network.
[...]
Password generator? Roll your own!
I get my userlists (school, 700 new users each year) in Excel file
format, and need to generate individual passwords before importing into
the user directory. I made a generator from the following parts:
- One cell with a "base string" of permitted password characters.
- Cells with a formula for extracting a random character from that string
- One cell that makes the password string from those cells
- A macro that copies the password string to each user record
Now I generate those passwords in a minute.
For pronounceable passwords, make two base strings, one with vowels and
one with consonants. Make the final password from alternately consonant
and vowel.
For strong passwords, use upper and lower case as well as digits and
punctuation, and variable password length.
When users are supposed to read the password, there are characters which
are easily confused. Avoid those. e.g.: Digit "zero" and uppercase
letter O ; Lowercase letter L, uppercase letter I and digit "one"
Password manager? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of "really strong
passwords"? (Same password stored twice, possibly with different
encryption, increases the amount and/or availability of source data and
makes extraction and decrypting easier.)
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Posted by Volker Birk on October 19, 2006, 4:26 pm
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> Now I generate those passwords in a minute.
> For pronounceable passwords, make two base strings, one with vowels and
> one with consonants. Make the final password from alternately consonant
> and vowel.
> For strong passwords, use upper and lower case as well as digits and
> punctuation, and variable password length.
> When users are supposed to read the password, there are characters which
> are easily confused. Avoid those. e.g.: Digit "zero" and uppercase
> letter O ; Lowercase letter L, uppercase letter I and digit "one"
If someone wants to attack your network, she/he will be very happy to
know that guide.
Yours,
VB.
--
"Ich lache nie."
Besim Karadeniz in d.c.s.m.
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Posted by Tristan on October 21, 2006, 6:05 am
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>> users that is under $500.
http://www.download.com
Type: "Free password generator"
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Posted by Volker Birk on October 16, 2006, 5:42 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > Good Evening, I am looking for a password generator and manager for 10
> users that is under $500.
> Any Suggestions?
What is a "password generator and manager"?
You can "generate" passwords with i.e.:
http://people.defora.org/~khorben/projects/makepasswd/
What do you mean with "manager" here?
Yours,
VB.
--
"Ich lache nie."
Besim Karadeniz in d.c.s.m.
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Posted by Chris Mattern on October 16, 2006, 10:19 am
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>Good Evening, I am looking for a password generator and manager for 10
>users that is under $500.
>
>Any Suggestions?
>
>Write back
>Thank you!
>Carmine.
>
Generator? apg, it's free and very nice, with a lot of options like
specifying whether you want or require numbers or punctuation or
capital letters, and an interesting option to produce "pronounceable"
passwords.
Manager? That would depend on a) what you need to manage passwords for, b)
what system you run on and c) exactly what you expect a password "manager"
to do.
--
Christopher Mattern
"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"
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