🚀 go-pugleaf

This is not a secure password generator!
If there are no arguments it seeds the pseudo-random number generator
with one of 32k different values.
Trial decryption is thus trivial.
(If there *are* arguments it probably seeds from an even smaller range.)

You don't need a better pseudo-random number generator,
you need a better source of randomness.  A high-resolution clock
might give you 32 unguessable bits, but that is not enough.
Another possibility is to have the user type something and measure
inter-character times with a busy loop:
	/* this is a crude example */
	for (8 times) {
		ask user to type something
		for (i = 0; no_keypress; i++)
			;
		the low-order value of "i" is probably quite random now
	}
This produces 64 unguessable bits (one might hope) that could be used
to seed a good PRNG, or probably even a crummy one by periodically doing:
		srand(rand() ^ some_of_the_unguessable_bits);

It is amazing how easy it is to break most of the posted password generators.
But then again, it is an easy trap to fall into.
Someone please post a really strong generator,
and try and make it widely available, and become famous.

Tom Truscott