NAME Crypt::XkcdPassword - see http://xkcd.com/936/ SYNOPSIS use 5.010; use Crypt::XkcdPassword; say Crypt::XkcdPassword->make_password; DESCRIPTION Yet another password generator module inspired by . Constructor * "new(%attr)" Creates a new generator. A single generator can be used to generate as many passwords as you like. Attributes This is a Moose (well, Any::Moose) based class. * "words" A string which will be appended to "Crypt::XkcdPassword::Words::" to form a class name which will be used as a source for words. The default is "EN", which means the class used as a source for words is "Crypt::XkcdPassword::Words::EN". "Crypt::XkcdPassword::Words::EN" is a list of 10,000 common English words. "Crypt::XkcdPassword::Words::EN::Roget" is a list of about 8500 words. The words are less questionable, but as there are fewer of them, pass phrases will be chosen from a smaller pool, thus slightly more guessable. Also supplied is "IT", a list of 20,000 common Italian words. * "rng" A coderef for generating a random number. The coderef is called and passed a single numeric argument. The coderef is expected to generate a random, positive integer, smaller than the argument. The default is: sub { int(rand($_[0])) } Perl's default random number generator is often though insufficient for practical cryptography, so you may wish to use another random number generator. Methods * "make_password($size, $filter)" Returns the password as a string. $size is the length of the password in words. It defaults to 4. For the English dictionary that provides over 47 bits of entropy; for the Italian dictionary (which has twice as many words), about 56 bits of entropy. $filter is a test against which each word is checked. It can be a sub returning true if the word is OK, or a regular expression matching OK words. Words which are not OK will be excluded from passwords. The default is to allow any words found in the provided dictionary. For reference, 47 bits of entropy is roughly equivalent to an eight digit random case-sensitive alphanumeric password (i.e. 62^8). This can be called as an object method, or (if you have no desire to change the defaults for the "rng" and "words" attributes) as a class method. That is, the first line of the example below is a shortcut for the second line: say Crypt::XkcdPassword->make_password($size); say Crypt::XkcdPassword->new->make_password($size); Note that the passphrases returned may not be ASCII-safe, and may sometimes be inappropriate for uttering in polite company. See Crypt::XkcdPassword::Examples for ways of using $filter to resolve this situation. * "chars" No-op, provided for compatibility with Data::SimplePassword. * "provider" No-op, provided for compatibility with Data::SimplePassword. BUGS Please report any bugs to . SEE ALSO Crypt::XkcdPassword::Examples - how to do stuff with this module. Data::SimplePassword - I borrowed this module's interface, so it should mostly be possible to s/Data::SimplePassword/Crypt::XkcdPassword/. Crypt::PW44 - similar to this one, but with a smaller list of words. . AUTHOR Toby Inkster . COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Toby Inkster. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.