passgen 0.4.1 Pronounceable Password Generator This is passgen, a somewhat pronounceable password generator. It relies on the phonotactics of english in which most consonants when separated by vowels form pronouncable, although meaningless charcter groupings. A note to those looking for more pronounceable passwords: It is not difficult to improve on the pronounceable qualities of the passwords generated. An algorithm developed by Morrie Gasser does this by using familiar character groupings ie: "ch", "ph", "sh" etc... But as discussed in "A New Attack on Random Pronouncable Password Generators" (Ravi Ganesan & Chris Davies, 2000), this can actually degrade the actual randomness of the password and creates predictable passwords. passgen has been developed to meet a common set of standards for choosing a secure password. See http://www.linuxbuilt.com/passwords/ for details. passgen is provided "as is" with no warranty. The exact terms under which you may use and (re)distribute this program are detailed in the GNU General Public License, in the file COPYING. See the files AUTHORS and THANKS for a list of authors and other contributors. See the file INSTALL for generic compilation and installation instructions. See the file NEWS for a description of major changes in this release. See the file TODO for ideas on how you could help improve passgen. Send bug reports to: . When reporting bugs, please include the following: - be sure to include the word "passgen" in the subject - include the output of `passgen --version` - include the output of `uname -a` or other system specific info - a description of what you were trying to do and what actually happened