Memorable Password
June 04 2011 at 11:33 am
I have been working on a gem for random but memorable password generation. It uses dictionary words and a list of proper names and mixes those up with numbers and/or special characters, depending on the options you pass in. It is inherently less secure than a full random password, but the idea is that if you give the user a password they can remember then hopefully they won't use "password" or their username or stick the password to the side of their monitor.
Usage is pretty simple.
You can specify upper case if you'd like, as well as special characters. You can put a fixed length or a min length, but those will of course reduce the number of possible permutations and combinations.
The best part is that it filters out profanity so I had to commit a text file containing all the most vulgar and insulting words I could come up with.
The whole API and source is available from GitHub. It is on rubygems.org, currently at version 0.0.3 but I am still working on it.
https://github.com/kimos/memorable_password
Usage is pretty simple.
MemorablePassword.generate
=> "chuck9paste"
You can specify upper case if you'd like, as well as special characters. You can put a fixed length or a min length, but those will of course reduce the number of possible permutations and combinations.
The best part is that it filters out profanity so I had to commit a text file containing all the most vulgar and insulting words I could come up with.
The whole API and source is available from GitHub. It is on rubygems.org, currently at version 0.0.3 but I am still working on it.
https://github.com/kimos/memorable_password
