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Re: Security of `dupload' and `pwgen'?



On 18 Sep 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:

>  Q2: If I generate a password with `pwgen', couldn't someone run it in a 
>      loop for a while, and collect the passwords it makes to use in
>      guessing the maintainer's passwords?

Yes, eventually. pwgen's passwords are pretty weak. They always are in the
form "<some letters><one digit><some letters>", all letters except 1 or 2
being lowercase. 

pwgen is only designed to generate 'pronouncable but not _too_ trivial
passwords'. This behavior is a documented a bit more in pwgen's manpage.

	Cordialement,

	V. (pwgen maintainer)

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