pwgen Password generation Utility

This is a utility that was found several years ago in somewhere in the
USENET archives. Its purpose is to create random, and originally,
pronouncable passwords to assign to user accounts. The idea was to try
to make password cracking attacks more difficult, while at the same time
producing a password that was relatively easy to remember.

Here is a further description derived from the original source file:


Generate (hopefully) pronounceable random passwords. These can often be
remembered more easily than completely random passwords, and are immune
to dictionary searches, etc.

The original version of this program was written in BASIC on an OSI
Superboard II SBC. That version is long gone(the SB2's cassette drive
was never trustworthy, it eventually scrambled the tape), but the basic
(pardon the pun) idea lives on here, with a few modification like basing
the selection on "graphs" (actually, they are a restricted set of
phonemes) and having randomly-selected spellings for those graphs.


Two changes have been made to the original source:

1. It has been converted to Unicode.
2. Numbers added to the list of password characters.


This utility includes source code and a Makefile for use with the NMAKE
utility under Windows NT.

If anyone knows the original author of this program, please let us know
so that we can include a citation. Also, if anyone knows the location of
the original BASIC source, please let us know so that we can include it
within the archive.



Usage/Help:
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usage: pwgen Length [Count]

  Options:
    Length -
    The length of the password(s), in characters, to generate.

    Count -
    The number of passwords to generate. The default is one.



Installation:
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Installation is simple; just copy the file into a directory listed in
the %Path% Environment variable. The distribution also includes debug
symbols. This file should be copied into %SystemRoot%\Symbols\Exe, in
order for ntsd, (or windbag, I guess), to find it.

Note that the .DBG symbol file is needed only if you want to run the
program under a debugger such as ntsd. The file is not needed for any
other reason than to make the internal symbols available to the debug
program.