Re: Generate password

[Jonathan Boivin]

If I could give an advice on your method, in fact, what I would do.. is :
Generate a password with your lower security set of characters. Then upper
case randomizally some letters and finally inserts special chars at
randomized positions.

I don't know if you like the proposition, but it can help.

Jonathan Boivin

"Morten Snedker" <mo************ @gmail.coma écrit dans le message de news:
%2************* ***@TK2MSFTNGP0 3.phx.gbl...

You certainly got a point there that I missed myself. Thanks for your
input.

Back to the drawing table :-)

Regards /Snedker

Family Tree Mike skrev:

>Your medium and complex modes do not force the generator to pick from the
other datasets, even though you add them to the list of random
characters. This means that in a given scenario, even if you pass in
"complex", you could get a password of "boogiewoog ie" (just an example,
all from the lower case). Random doesn't guarantee one from each set, is
what I am getting at. Our company requres the complex set, but at least
one from each group.

"Morten Snedker" wrote:

>>I'm using this for generating passwords. It seems to function okay.
Anything you guys reckon I missed out on?
'** CODE BEGIN
Public Class GeneratePasswor d

Public Shared Function GeneratePasswor d(ByVal Length As
Integer, ByVal Complexity As Complexity) As String

Dim characters As String =
"abcdefghijkl mnopqrstuvwxyz1 234567890"

If Complexity = Complexity.Medi um Or Complexity =
Complexity.Co mplex Then
characters += "ABCDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ"
End If

If Complexity = Complexity.Medi um Then
characters += "!#%&/()=? "
End If

Dim password As String = ""
Dim random As New Random

For i As Integer = 0 To Length
password += characters.Subs tring(random.Ne xt(0,
characters.Le ngth - 1), 1)
Next

Return password

End Function

Public Enum Complexity
Simple
Medium
Complex
End Enum

End Class
'** CODE END

Regards /Snedker