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.