![]() ![]() The number of words to be used, and the minimum and maximum lengths of the words can be configured. You can visualise this process as follows: correct horse batter stapleĮach of these steps can be customised in the following ways: ![]() This symbol is referred to as the padding character. Pad the password with multiple instances of the same symbol front and/or back. This symbol is referred to as the separator character. Insert a copy of the same symbol between each of the words and pseudo-words. The algorithm is broken in to the following steps:Ĭreate pseudo-words made up for randomly chosen digits and add them as the first and last words. It's important to understand the algorithm before trying to create your own custom configurations for this module. This module always uses a simple five-step algorithm to generate passwords, but each step can be customised, and many steps can be skipped completely. To passwords that look like this: GENERATION ALGORITHM In shot, this module is for people who prefer passwords that look like this: !15.23! This module uses words to make up the bulk of the passwords it generates, but it also adds carefully placed symbols and digits to add security without making the passwords difficult to remember, read, type, and speak. Words are easy to remember, easy to read from a screen, easy to type, and easy to communicate over the telephone. Rather than randomly choosing many letters, digits, and symbols from a fairly small alphabet of possible characters, this library chooses a small number of words from a large alphabet of possible words as the basis for passwords. Surely it would be better to have passwords that are still truly random in the way humans can't be, but are also human-friendly in the way random gibberish never will be? This is the problem this module aims to solve. As annoying as it is to have to glance over and back at a small cellphone screen to manually type a gibberish password into a computer, that's nothing compared to the annoyance of trying to communicate such a password to a family member, friend, colleague or customer over the phone. Regardless of how good your chosen password manager is, there will always be times when you need to type in your passwords, and that's when random gibberish passwords become a real pain point. These kinds of nonsense passwords are certainly secure, but they are often impractical. Many of these managers also offer to generate random passwords for us, usually in the form of a random string of meaningless letters numbers and symbols. There are many great password managers out there to help us securely store and sync our passwords, including commercial offerings and open-source projects. We need our computers to help us generate robust password and store them securely. Obviously we need some technological help. ![]() Coming up with one good password is easy, but coming up with one good password a week is a lot harder, let alone one a day! If we re-use our passwords we expose ourself to an ever greater risk, but we need more passwords than we can possibly remember or invent. More and more of the things we do on our computer require passwords, and at the same time it seems we hear about organisations or sites losing user database on every day that ends in a y. My = $hsxkpasswd_instance->passwords(10) DESCRIPTIONĪ secure memorable password generator inspired by the wonderful XKCD webcomic at and Steve Gibson's Password Haystacks page at. My $password = $hsxkpasswd_instance->password() My $hsxkpasswd_instance = Crypt::HSXKPasswd->new() # create a new instance with the default dictionary, config, and random # Object Oriented Interface - recommended for generating multiple passwords My $password = hsxkpasswd(preset => 'XKCD') # so all the same customisations can be specified, e.g. # this function passes all arguments on to Crypt::HSXKPasswd->new() My $password = Crypt::HSXKPasswd->new()->password() # the above call is simply a shortcut for the following # generate a single password using the default word source, configuration, # Functional Interface - a shortcut for generating single passwords This documentation refers to Crypt::HSXKPasswd version 3.6.
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