Browser: Generate pronounceable passwords

[ple103]

I want to be able to generate pronounceable passwords similar to what the LastPass password generator (pwdgen) can do (https://lastpass.com/generate). A feature on top of this I would like to see is the pwdgen replacing letters with numbers and symbols if the either (or both) the numbers and symbols checkbox is selected.

For example:

Letter      Replaced with
a           @
e           3
l           1
s           5, $
o, O        0
i           !

It would be great if bitwarden also allows the user to customize what letter is replaced with what number/symbol, and define their own for pwdgen to use.

[kspearrin]

If we added something pronounceable, it would be done with passphrase words. Related: https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/issues/14

I like the number/symbols option though as well.

[ple103]

Why not both? Passphrases and pronounceable passwords.
Pronounceable passwords make great random usernames too :)

[trisk]

There's quite a lot of literature out there on pronounceable passwords. The most commonly used pronounceable password scheme is probably the old NIST standard FIPS 181 (which was later found to have weaknesses) as used in apg, followed by the algorithm in the classic pwgen utility. There's also stuff using newer encoding specs like Koremutake.

Passphrase generation seems to generally be based on Diceware. A discussion on implementation considerations: https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/54598/old-pronounceable-vs-new-diceware-passwords

[josh-parris]

Non-localised, but a starting point: https://github.com/rsanders/correct-horse-battery-staple

with the default dictionary, you get about 10^12 password combinations. See it in action at http://correcthorsebatterystaple.net/

[jnv]

Related: https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/330, https://github.com/bitwarden/core/issues/93

[kspearrin]

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