Today I heard that even passwords we think are really tough are pretty easy to crack. Anything that might be a word might be easy to crack. In response, I wrote this, hoping that maybe I'd get some randomized passwords. It's pretty tough to remember some of these, though! I should know, I usually use difficult passwords, and the difficult part is remembering them. I would imagine that anything this script generates would be nearly impossible to guess unless they get your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file. I don't think a brute force attack will get these (but I've been wrong before -- just try to remember one of these suckers!).

Click here to see the script

You can change the alphabet manually, or ask it to be shell safe (no characters that will choke a shell) and you can tell it how long it should be (default is 10 characters). It also shows you what it will look like in md5 encryption.

It's a really simple script intended to be used on the command line, but feel free to implement it in other scripts or web-adapt it.