Debian Package a Day's Journal

pwgen - Automatic Password generation

pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords. These passwords contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case mixed, or digits thrown in. Uppercase letters and digits are placed in a way that eases remembering their position when memorizing only the word.

Another from Robert Waldner:

Tired of straining your imagination for new & reasonably secure passwords twenty times a day? Here's help.

I've been using pwgen for years. Always feels good not to reuse an existing password. But what to do with all those passwords?

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