from the bad idea department
Paul Hoffman
paul.hoffman at vpnc.org
Wed Nov 30 12:47:49 EST 2005
At 11:35 AM -0500 11/21/05, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>https://www.grc.com/passwords if you want to see more.
>(In fairness, the "Application Notes" section is listed as
>"under construction". Maybe it will contain suitable caveats
>when it's finished.)
A different approach would be for him to write an open-source program
that generates the passwords on your local machine. Of course, if it
is distributed as an executable, you don't know if the executable is
the same as the source, but you are already trusting him now on the
program on his web site.
Given that most users of this would be Windows folks, one could
possibly write a really creative batch program to do this, thus
eliminating the worry about the difference in executable. It would be
mostrously ugly, but a nice hack.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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