I wanted to generate some reasonable passwords but make them rememberable. I looked into pronounceable passwords, but they relied on dictionaries or other support files, so I came up with a new approach – the Sport Score password. These passwords are designed to be remembered as a College sport score, for instance: Password KY5MA9 is remembered as Kentucky 5, Massachusetts 9.<\/p>\n
50 states x 50 states x 10 x 10 = 250,000 unique passwords, good enough for many needs.<\/p>\n
Here’s the PHP code…
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\n$aPwd = getPassword();\nprint \"Your password is a sport score: \" . $aPwd['password'] . \", pronounced '\" . $aPwd['text'] . \"'\";\n\nfunction getPassword(){\n $aStates = Array (\n \"ALABAMA\" => \"AL\", \"ALASKA\" => \"AK\", \"ARIZONA\" => \"AZ\",\n \"ARKANSAS\" => \"AR\", \"CALIFORNIA\" => \"CA\", \"COLORADO\" => \"CO\", \n \"CONNECTICUT\" => \"CT\", \"DELAWARE\" => \"DE\", \"FLORIDA\" => \"FL\",\n \"GEORGIA\" => \"GA\", \"HAWAII\" => \"HI\", \"IDAHO\" => \"ID\",\n \"ILLINOIS\" => \"IL\", \"INDIANA\" => \"IN\", \"IOWA\" => \"IA\", \n \"KANSAS\" => \"KS\", \"KENTUCKY\" => \"KY\", \"LOUISIANA\" => \"LA\", \n \"MAINE\" => \"ME\", \"MARYLAND\" => \"MD\", \"MASSACHUSETTS\" => \"MA\",\n \"MICHIGAN\" => \"MI\", \"MINNESOTA\" => \"MN\", \"MISSISSIPPI\" => \"MS\",\n \"MISSOURI\" => \"MO\", \"MONTANA\" => \"MT\", \"NEBRASKA\" => \"NE\",\n \"NEVADA\" => \"NV\", \"NEW HAMPSHIRE\" => \"NH\", \"NEW JERSEY\" => \"NJ\",\n \"NEW MEXICO\" => \"NM\", \"NEW YORK\" => \"NY\", \"NORTH CAROLINA\" => \"NC\",\n \"NORTH DAKOTA\" => \"ND\", \"OHIO\" => \"OH\", \"OKLAHOMA\" => \"OK\",\n \"OREGON\" => \"OR\", \"PENNSYLVANIA\" => \"PA\", \"RHODE ISLAND\" => \"RI\", \n \"SOUTH CAROLINA\" => \"SC\", \"SOUTH DAKOTA\" => \"SD\", \"TENNESSEE\" => \"TN\",\n \"TEXAS\" => \"TX\", \"UTAH\" => \"UT\", \"VERMONT\" => \"VT\",\n \"VIRGINIA\" => \"VA\", \"WASHINGTON\" => \"WA\", \"WEST VIRGINIA\" => \"WV\",\n \"WISCONSIN\" => \"WI\", \"WYOMING\" => \"WY\"\n );\n \n $aStateNames = array_keys($aStates);\n $aStateAbbrs = array_values($aStates);\n \n $pwd = '';\n $txt = '';\n $r = rand(0,49);\n $pwd .= \"$aStateAbbrs[$r]\";\n $txt .= \"$aStateNames[$r]\";\n $r = rand(1,9);\n $pwd .= \"$r\";\n $txt .= \" $r, \";\n $r = rand(0,49);\n $pwd .= \"$aStateAbbrs[$r]\";\n $txt .= \"$aStateNames[$r]\";\n $r = rand(1,9);\n $pwd .= \"$r\";\n $txt .= \" $r\";\n \n return Array( 'password' => $pwd, 'text' => $txt );\n}\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I wanted to generate some reasonable passwords but make them rememberable. I looked into pronounceable passwords, but they relied on dictionaries or other support files, so I came up with a new approach – the Sport Score password. These passwords are designed to be remembered as a College sport score, for instance: Password KY5MA9 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}