NAME

Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic::Password - enunciate a password as words

SYNOPSIS

This is a specialization of Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic. You should not use this module; all interaction should be done with an object of type Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic.

      use Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic;
      my $phonetic = new Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic('Password');
      my @phonetic_pw = $phonetic->enunciate('qOusiENi');

DESCRIPTION

This module is a dictionary for Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic. It allows for enunciation of passwords, using the following rules:

• lowercase letters enunciated using the NATO alphabet per Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic::NATO, but the word will be lowercased.
• uppercase letters enunciated using the NATO alphabet per Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic::NATO, but the word will be uppercased.
• numbers enunciated as an initialcaps word for the english pronuciation of the number.
• special characters enunciated as a mixedcaps word for the english punctuation of the

  character

  @ At ? Question _ Underscore # Hash & Ampersand ! Exclamation

  • Dash
    • Asterisk + Plus
      • Equals " DoubleQuote % Percent ' SingleQuote ( LeftParens ) RightParens , Comma . Period / ForeSlash \ BackSlash : Colon ; SemiColon < LessThan > GreaterThan [ LeftBracket ] RightBracket { LeftBrace } RightBrace ^ Caret ` Backtick | Pipe ~ Tilde

A character which does not fall into any of these categories is dispatched back to the base class for conversion. In the case of Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic, this returns the character unchanged.

INSPIRATION

This module was inspired by the web-based password generator at http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php. In particular, the words used for special characters are the same as used by that application whenever possible. Some translations, like the character "x" are different because this module uses Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic to do the heavy lifting for alphabetic characters. In that module, "x" is rendered as "xray", but winguides.com reders it as "x-ray". C'est la vie.

This module supports more special characters than the passwords which that application generates, so any liberties taken with these characters are my own.

SEE ALSO

Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic by Martin Thurn, the core for which this module serves as a dictionary.

AUTHOR

James FitzGibbon, <jfitz@CPAN.org>.

CREDITS

Martin Thurn for writing Lingua::Alphabet::Phonetic. The interface was pleasantly simple to extend.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2004 Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software. You may use and/or modify it under the same terms as perl itself.