A FIPS 181 Password Generator

If your office password expires every 45 or 90 days (as mine does), then you change your password fairly often. In order to introduce some level of randomness and avoid the continual use of variations on the same password (lucky1, lucky2, lucky3....), I use this handy 'non-English, pronouncable-word' password generator.

As the FIPS standard defines that 'rules of pronouncability' be stored in the code (specifically the layout of the data). Syllables are chosen according to these rules, so the result is pronouncable, but not likely an actual dictionary word (although the document points out that: "The password algorithm does not preclude the generation of words found in a standard English dictionary.")

I find this password generator useful. I usually augment the words by changing one letter to a capital, and one letter to a numeric. It's a FIPS standard!

See http://devsuki.com/passogva/ for variations of the FIPs code for "C", Perl, Python and PHP.

Automatically Generated Password of the moment:

jabijryn (jab-ij-ryn)