apg still very useful, please don't deprecate

[Sean DALY]

Hi Fang-Pin,

I did mention the advantages of apg compared to random password generators,
in particular the pronounceable nonsense syllables

Sean


On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 2:59 AM Fang-Pin Chang <nb at bitaxis.com> wrote:

> Or something simple like this:
>
> $ LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9' </dev/urandom | head -c 16 ; echo
>
> --
>
> On Aug 15, 2020, at 11:44 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Aug 2020, Sean DALY wrote:
>
> I am a user of MacPorts on my three main Macs and I am concerned having
> seen the message that apg may be deprecated. This is a very useful utility
> for me, I use it every time I need to generate a strong unique password
> (i.e., once or twice a week). I use it like this:
>
>
> [...]
>
> Will "jot" not suffice?
>
> -- Dave
>
>
>
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