Debian Bug report logs - #478723
use dictionary to filter phomeme generated passwords

Package: pwgen; Maintainer for pwgen is Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]>; Source for pwgen is src:pwgen (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:15:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version pwgen/2.05-1

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Package: pwgen
Version: 2.05-1
Severity: minor

I got this:

dipolo:/var/log# pwgen
Wife8Quo ree9iTei jeiD8ael iec0ceiV me8Se5to ooS3aeMa oX1yaich ce2rio4T

the very fist suggested password contains two (Wife and Quo) common words..
is feasible to add also an option to try a dictionary attach to the
generated passwords ?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages pwgen depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

pwgen recommends no packages.

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Changed Bug title to 'use dictionary to filter phomeme generated passwords' from 'pwgen: generate insecure password.'. Request was from Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:27:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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Debian Bug report logs - #478723 use dictionary to filter phomeme generated passwords

Debian Bug report logs - #478723
use dictionary to filter phomeme generated passwords