CPAN modules for generating passwords (remember “pwgen”!)

I started digging a little into this, when I faced the challenge to provide a customer with a password generator available on his platform. I myself had used Theodore Ts’o’s pwgen for years, so that was my search keyword.
  • Neil Bowers on CPAN modules for generating passwords [link] (looks like THE CONTEMPORARY REPORT on the topic)
  • Neil’s favourite: Sawyer X’s App::Genpass [link] (it comes with a command line utility)
  • Dominik Schulz’s Data::Pwgen [link] (I guess, I found only this one, because it mentioned pwgen

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