// password.cpp // // Copyright (c) 2010 // Steven Watanabe // // Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See // accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at // http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) //[password /*` For the source of this example see [@boost://libs/random/example/password.cpp password.cpp]. This example demonstrates generating a random 8 character password. */ #include #include #include int main() { /*<< We first define the characters that we're going to allow. This is pretty much just the characters on a standard keyboard. >>*/ std::string chars( "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" "1234567890" "!@#$%^&*()" "`~-_=+[{]}\\|;:'\",<.>/? "); /*<< We use __random_device as a source of entropy, since we want passwords that are not predictable. >>*/ boost::random::random_device rng; /*<< Finally we select 8 random characters from the string and print them to cout. >>*/ boost::random::uniform_int_distribution<> index_dist(0, chars.size() - 1); for(int i = 0; i < 8; ++i) { std::cout << chars[index_dist(rng)]; } std::cout << std::endl; } //]