NAME

       gpw - program to generate pronounceable passwords

SYNOPSIS

       gpw [number_of_passwords [length_of_passwords]]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the  gpw  command.   This  manual page was written for the Debian
       GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       Gpw is a program that generate pronounceable passwords of whatever  length  is  desidered.  It  uses  the
       statistics  of three-letter combinations (trigraphs) of the english system dictionary. It is based on the
       ideas in Morrie Gasser's password generator for Multics, and Dan  Edwards's  generator  for  CTSS.   FIPS
       Standard 181 describes a similar digraph-based generator, derived from Gasser's.

OPTIONS

       This  program  accepts  two optional numbers as command-line arguments.  The first value is the number of
       password to generate, the second one is the length of the passwords required, up to 99.  Defaults are  10
       and 8 respectively.

NOTE

       Password length should be choosen consistently with the encryption standard used.
       So,  a  value  of  eight  is  useful  with  DES  encryption,  and  a longer value should be used with MD5
       encryption.

SEE ALSO

       passwd(1),pwgen(1).

AUTHOR

       This program has been written by Tom Van Vleck <thvv@multicians.org> in 1994.

CREDITS

       Based on the ideas in Morrie Gasser's password generator for Multics, and  Dan  Edwards's  generator  for
       CTSS.  FIPS Standard 181 describes a similar digraph-based generator, derived from Gasser's.
       This  manual  page  was  written by Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others), who also modified and packaged sources to port it under GNU/Linux.

                                                  Aug 24, 2001                                            GPW(1)