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kotus-pwgen

Password generators that use the words from kotus_sanat.txt.

Someone told me that a password consisting of three dictionary words is more secure than one with eight alphanumeric characters. Well, depends on the size of the dictionary, right? Someone else pointed out that kotus_sanat.txt consists of 97k words, ie. 16.5 bits of entropy per word. That's great!

Of course, no one has an active vocabulary of a hundred thousand words, so I went on to generate a couple of passwords from the dictionary.

$ shuf -n 3 kotus_sanat.txt
paperikanta
pulsaattoripesukone
kenttäposti

Right.

To share the fun, I wrote a simple web version of the generator.

Then I wrote another version as a self-contained shell script, as I had always been fascinated by self-extracting archives run with /bin/sh. kotus-pwgen.sh uses the same technique. It's much worse than shuf, but hey, not everyone has GNU coreutils.