Mnemonic Password Generator - a la Ruby
I wanted to have a mnenonic password generator for a little application that I’m writing in ruby, and couldn’t find one out there. So, I rolled my own. Actually, it’s a knock-off of a Python one I found, but that doesn’t really matter.
Do with this what you will. Hope it’s useful to someone.
def generateMnemonicPassword(letters=8, digits=4) consonants = "bdfghklmnprstvwz" vowels = "aeiou" password = "" (1 .. letters).each do |i| range = i%2 == 1 ? consonants : vowels password = password + range[rand(range.length), 1] end (1 .. digits).each do |i| password = password + rand(10).to_s end password end
It outputs fun and pronounceable passwords such as tepelopu8058, vonobuba6145 and kipowetu0270.
Enjoy!