12 Mar
2024
12 Mar
'24
10:47 p.m.
Ron Harden’s insult generator solved the NSFW passphrase problem. It is available at
https://cheswick <https://cheswick/>.com/insults
On Mar 12, 2024, at 12:23 PM, Paul Winalski
<paul.winalski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One problem with random password generation is to avoid generating
passwords that are or contain naughty words. VAX/VMS version 4.0
added an option for random password generation. They had a very
extensive list of naughty words in many different languages to filter
the random passwords. During beta test they got a bug report from a
high school. The naughty words text file was world-readable and
students were amusing themselves by reading it. At release the file
was protected so that only privileged users could read it.