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The generated password can be guessed by guessing the srand seed
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Re: Re: Password generator using a linguistic rule base
by Nitsuj (Hermit) on Aug 18, 2001 at 20:54 UTC
    This is true, but you would also need a copy of the script to know how the passwords are initially generated and have a password to verify the seed against, anything else would be so close to brute cracking that the time investment would be about the same, don't you think... and at least it encourages users not to pick bad passwords.

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