Re: [FWP] YAGOLF: password generation

[merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)]

>>>>> "Abhijit" == Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org> writes:

Abhijit> On 2001-04-11 10:07:28, filipe-brandenburger@procergs.rs.gov.br wrote:
>> 
>> echo|perl -pe "@a=(A..Z,a..z,0..9);eval's##\$a[rand@a]#;'x8"
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> Can it still be further shortened?

Abhijit>     (51) perl -e 'print((A..Z,a..z,0..9)[rand 63])for(1..8)'

Penalties for excessive punctuation, *and* for off-by-one.

Two better...

perl -e 'print+(A..Z,a..z,0..9)[rand 62]for 1..8'

Also, you're missing '.' and '/' from the salt set, if that's what
you're working on.

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