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NIST Pubs

Automated Password Generator (APG)

Author(s)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Charles Dinkel
[Withdrawn on October 19, 2015] The Automated Password Generator Standard specifies an algorithm to generate passwords for the protection of computer resources
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