Ruby/Password 0.5.3

Ruby/Password is a suite of password handling methods for Ruby.
It supports the manual entry of passwords from the keyboard in both buffered and unbuffered modes, random password generation, password strength checking, phonemic password generation (for easy memorisation by human-beings) and the encryption of passwords.
CrackLib makes literally hundreds of tests to determine whether youve chosen a bad password.
- It tries to generate words from your username and GECOS entry and tries to match them against the password youve chosen.
- It checks for simplistic patterns.
- It then tries to reverse-engineer your password into a dictionary word, and searches for it in your dictionary.
- after all that, its PROBABLY a safe(-ish) password. 8-)
The target audience for this library is system administrators who need to write Ruby programs that prompt for, generate, verify and encrypt passwords.