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Old 05-13-2011
If I could make a quick feature request - to be able to copy a password to the clipboard (pref. plain X11) instead of outputing otherwise (I've had a quick look for a way to do this to no avail). Also a util to securely erase a file a password was output to would be complimentary.

This was an interesting article, The Usability of Passwords. It appears a short phrase of (near) normal English is as secure as 8 or so mixed symbols/chars.

Myself I'm still trying to figure how I'm getting incidents of MITM style data injection over a SSL vpn to a https webpage! (I can't do any more to make the physical machine itself more secure either - so I am assuming this is not the problem, and I'm not running any dodgy software otherwise.)
# 9  
Old 06-27-2011
okhawaja, I can't do much with a bug report like that.

GSO, I am revising the script right now but I don't plan to do anything like that. If you're running it in a decent window environment, you should have cut and paste. Even if I wanted to implement your request, puttting a feature like that in a script seems daunting and would certainly undermine the portability. I hope that swordfish will work with any version of ksh even on an old ascii terminal. Sorry. Smilie
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