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NAME

       gpw - program to generate pronounceable passwords

SYNOPSIS

       gpw [number_of_passwords [length_of_passwords]]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page documents briefly the gpw command.  This manual page
       was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the  original
       program does not have a manual page.

       Gpw  is  a  program  that  generate pronounceable passwords of whatever
       length  is  desidered.  It  uses   the   statistics   of   three-letter
       combinations  (trigraphs) of the english system dictionary. It is based
       on the ideas in Morrie Gasser’s password generator for Multics, and Dan
       Edwards’s  generator  for  CTSS.  FIPS Standard 181 describes a similar
       digraph-based generator, derived from Gasser’s.

OPTIONS

       This program accepts two optional numbers  as  command-line  arguments.
       The  first  value is the number of password to generate, the second one
       is the length of the passwords required, up to 99.  Defaults are 10 and
       8 respectively.

NOTE

       Password  length  should  be  choosen  consistently with the encryption
       standard used.
       So, a value of eight is useful with DES encryption, and a longer  value
       should be used with MD5 encryption.

SEE ALSO

       passwd(1),pwgen(1).

AUTHOR

       This program has been written by Tom Van Vleck <thvv@multicians.org> in
       1994.

CREDITS

       Based on the ideas in Morrie Gasser’s password generator  for  Multics,
       and  Dan  Edwards’s  generator for CTSS.  FIPS Standard 181 describes a
       similar digraph-based generator, derived from Gasser’s.
       This   manual   page   was   written   by   Francesco   P.    Lovergine
       <frankie@debian.org>,  for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used
       by others), who also modified and packaged sources  to  port  it  under
       GNU/Linux.

                                 Aug 24, 2001