Create Easy Memorable Secure Passwords

My friend Annie just had her Facebook and email account passwords hacked. Maybe by phishing, but more likely by brute force password guessing. If it was phishing the best thing to do is to change trust behaviors. However, if it was by password cracking there is a real easy fix:

Stronger password!!

So for her and everyone else who needs a strong password that you can remember and pronounce, I’ve written a little script in PHP that uses a nifty Unix utility called apg. We used pwgen for giving our automated WordPress installations a database password, but we want to display pronounciations. apg does a much better job for this.

Non-Technical Get A Good Password Now

If you aren’t interested in the technical details and just want a strong password just pick one of them below. If you don’t like any of those password below simply refresh the page and we’ll give you 5 more to choose from (seriously, try it)! Each password is unique and randomly generated. We do not store any of the passwords generated either so feel free to use them for your own secure passwords.

Password is on left. Pronunciation is on right in parenthesis.

osAbAgFo (os-Ab-Ag-Fo)
eecdygOg (eec-dyg-Og)
evfekcoc (ev-fek-coc)
yacMiwep (yac-Mi-wep)
CojPhud0 (Coj-Phud-ZERO)

Technical Details Below

The php code used in the this article is here:

I installed apg using the ports system in Freebsd like so:

I installed the exec-php plugin for WordPress and activated it. I also edited by user profile to not use the WYSIWYG editor for writing posts, otherwise it can mess up the inline code real bad and make all php not work. Since I know how to code pretty decently, I don’t use the WYSIWYG editor anyway.

Then I wrote the little script in the post. But in order to illustrate it and show it in the code format too, I had to use the unicode character for the “<" tag otherwise it wouldn't render-- it would just run the program again. The unicode character by the way is this:

And the way I got that to display is I used the unicode character for the “&” haha!!!