Makistos
10/28/2013 - 7:55 AM

A password generator in C. This doesn't make completely random passwords, rather ones that are still random enough but slightly easier to re

A password generator in C. This doesn't make completely random passwords, rather ones that are still random enough but slightly easier to remember. This generator creates passwords with length 8 where every other character is [AEIOUY013] and every other [BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXZ2456789]. I.e. every other is a "vowel" with 0, 1 and 3 considered vowels (O, I and E, you see) and every other is a consonant.

This generator uses a far better algorithm to generate random numbers than the standard rand() function.

Come to think of it, 4 should also be a vowel...

#password-generator #random #c

password.c
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#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

static char vowels[] = "AEIOUY013";
static char consonants[] = "BCDFGHJKLMNPQRSTVWXZ2456789";

int my_rnd(long int maxval);

/*
 * my_rnd
 * 
 * Returns a better random value than the standard C rand()
 * function.
 * 
 * Copied from http://members.cox.net/srice1/random/crandom.html .
 */

int my_rnd(long int maxval)
{
	int retval;
	double r;
	double x;
	double r2;
	double r3;
	
	r = (double)rand();
	r2 = (double)RAND_MAX+(double)(1);
	r3 = r / r2;
	x = (r*maxval);
	retval = (int) x;
	
	return retval;
}

int main(void)
{
	int len = 8;
	int i;
	int pos;
	char c;
	time_t t1;
	
	/* Initialise the random generator */
	(void) time(&t1);	
	
	for(i=0;i<len;i++)
	{	
		if(i%2==0)
		{
			pos = my_rnd(27);
			c = consonants[pos];
		}
		else
		{
			pos = my_rnd(9);
			c = vowels[pos];
		}
		printf("%s", c);
	}
	printf("\n\n");
	return 0;
}