From: Steven Tobin <steventtobin (at) gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 05:10:34 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: Updated default password length to 6 (from 4)
X-Git-Url: http://git.99rst.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=51172cd9e5710c48a3461ac50872100ab3a26619;p=redacted-XKCD-password-generator.git

Updated default password length to 6 (from 4)

Noting that Diceware creator Arnold Reinhold now recommends using 6
words in his (similar) system, update the defaults to 6 for our code as
well.
---

diff --git a/xkcd_password.py b/xkcd_password.py
index b7b29e1..45530b2 100755
--- a/xkcd_password.py
+++ b/xkcd_password.py
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def find_acrostic(acrostic, wordlist):
 
 
 def generate_xkcdpassword(wordlist,
-                          n_words=4,
+                          n_words=6,
                           interactive=False,
                           acrostic=False,
                           delim=" "):
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ def generate_xkcdpassword(wordlist,
 
     # else, interactive session
     if not acrostic:
-        custom_n_words = raw_input("Enter number of words (default 4): ")
+        custom_n_words = raw_input("Enter number of words (default 6): ")
 
         if custom_n_words:
             n_words = int(custom_n_words)
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
                       default=9, type="int",
                       help="Maximum length of words to make password")
     parser.add_option("-n", "--numwords", dest="numwords",
-                      default=4, type="int",
+                      default=6, type="int",
                       help="Number of words to make password")
     parser.add_option("-i", "--interactive", dest="interactive",
                       default=False, action="store_true",