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Try Crypt::GeneratePassword. If it's good enough for a federal information standard, it's good enough for me.

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Re: •Re: Creating random passwords?
by sauoq (Abbot) on Jul 04, 2003 at 04:53 UTC
    If it's good enough for a federal information standard, it's good enough for me.

    Funny. I must have been reading up on this stuff even as you were writing your reply...

    The author of the module you suggested, Crypt::GeneratePassword, wrote it in part because he felt the FIPS standard wasn't good enough. It isn't based on FIPS-181. If you believe him, the algorithm he uses is better than that in Crypt::RandPasswd (which is based on FIPS-181.)

    In any case, A New Attack on Random Pronounceable Password Generators (external link, PDF) was a good read.

    -sauoq
    "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";