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Cocoa – password generator service

• laveur 11y ago
  I would consider a name change as I first thought this was a OS X Service for password generation. As Service and Cocoa are both names heavily associated with the platform.
  • avoidwork 11y ago
    Personal word association is not something I'm going to solve.
    • m_t 11y ago
      I guess you should take this kind of advice. I can second @laveur here, I thought the same.
      • avoidwork 11y ago
        Yeah I get that, and tbh as a mac user I considered it, but I don't subscribe to the idea that there can only be 1 incarnation for a word in software.
• onestone 11y ago
  Why would anyone want that? Sounds like a terrible idea. > The password(s) is not logged, or saved anywhere. Except in the email message, in plain text.
  • avoidwork 11y ago
    If you chose to send an email. Why would you want it? SOA with diff services that may have diff requirements, such as creating a temporal rep of the user. Everything is eventually plain text. Should you use this to blast something out publicly? Of course not. Is it useful internally? Definitely.
    • avoidwork 11y ago
      Follow up point, which I missed. You can control the entropy of the password. Do you need ~50b, ~80b, >~100b? It's just a parameter.