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"It's a novel idea."

No, I posted about my own generator in 2005: http://darius.livejournal.com/38591.html (getting the words from Beowulf). Then Zooko or Kragen pointed out some even older system in response (I forget the name).



Compuserve was generating automatic account passwords in the early 1980's from two dictionary words and a non-alpha character in between them. Mine was "sleeve;coast". No doubt they didn't invent the trick either.




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