Knowing that letter patterns and character distribution are based on language should make the resultant passwords a little easier to guess. Obviously, knowing that a host under attack requires passwords created with this code would narrow down the universe of possible combinations. But how much would that help? I'm not good at probabilities, but it appears to me that a program guessing passwords generated by code like this would still have a huge job ahead of it. Maybe this is the wrong forum to ask for help with such analysis. I think it's a good algorithm.

Ultimately, I am hoping for a routine where an attacker, knowing that the passwords were created with this code, would not get significant advantage from that knowledge. It's probably not there, yet, and might not get there if I don't bone up on probability.

Thanks for your positive comments.

In reply to Re: Re: Password generator using a linguistic rule base by ginseng
in thread Password generator using a linguistic rule base by ginseng

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