Text::Password::Pronounceable(3pm)

Text::Password::Pronounceable3pm

Generate pronounceable passwords

Usage

  # Generate a pronounceable password that is between 6 and 10 characters.
  Text::Password::Pronounceable->generate(6, 10);
  # Ditto
  my $pp = Text::Password::Pronounceable->new(6, 10);
  $pp->generate;

Overview

This module generates pronuceable passwords, based the the English digraphs by D Edwards.

Methods

new
  $pp = Text::Password::Pronounceable->new($min, $max);
  $pp = Text::Password::Pronounceable->new($len);

Construct a password factory with length limits of $min and $max. Or create a password factory with fixed length if only one argument is provided.

generate
  $pp->generate;
  $pp->generate($len);
  $pp->generate($min, $max);
  Text::Password::Pronounceable->generate($len);
  Text::Password::Pronounceable->generate($min, $max);

Generate password. If used as an instance method, arguments override the factory settings.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7–9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12–13

History

This code derived from mpw.pl, a bit of code with a sordid history.

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CPAN module by Chia-liang Kao 9/11/2006.

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Perl cleaned up a bit by Jesse Vincent 1/14/2001.

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Converted to perl from C by Marc Horowitz, 1/20/2000.

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Converted to C from Multics PL/I by Bill Sommerfeld, 4/21/86.

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Original PL/I version provided by Jerry Saltzer.

License

Copyright 2006 by Best Practical Solutions, LLC.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

From libtext-password-pronounceable-perl 0.30-3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.