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Article #914Re: Secure password generation
From: Grady Ward grady
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 14:53
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 14:53
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For pronounceable passwords,
you might consider using a combination
of the MD5 (message digest) algorithm
coupled to one or more of my Moby Lexical
databases:
The Pronunciator database will give
you a comprehensive set of individual,
double, and longer phonemes tuples that
are, by definition, pronounceable (using
IPA and 150,000 real words and phrases
in English and adopted into English.)
The Part-of-Speech database would even
permit you to construct grammatically
correct "sentences" for passphrase
generation; the Moby Words database has 560,000
entries in English; good enough for a subsequent
comprehensive scan for stereotyped passwords
or phrases.
The MD5 Algorithm would then collapse the
password or phrase into a well-distributed
bit space that a salt cold be coalesced into
or a key extracted from.
Although not an endorsement,
Eugene Spafford is in fact using Moby Words
in a similar Internet project; the NSA
is a licensee of the Part-of-Speech database.
These databases are available world-wide,
with special consideration for educational
and research organizations.
For more information on these data sets, please
e-mail a postal address to: grady@btr.com
phone (408) 373-1491, or write:
Illumind
571 Belden St.
Monterey, CA 93940 USA
--
Grady Ward grady@btr.com Moby Lexicons
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