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+# pwgen - generate pronounceable passwords
+
+## About
+
+I am the well known password generator pwgen. You can read more about me on my [manual page][].
+
+## How did I get here on GitHub?
+
+[Philipp][] took my sources from the [sourceforge project site][] and republished me as a Git
+repository here on GibHub.
+
+To get there, he downloaded the .tar.gz packages from the download section of the project on sf.net.
+A `git cvsimport` was not possible as newer versions were not checked-in to CVS on SF.net.
+To automatically create the repository, he used the following Bash Script:
+
+    #!/bin/bash
+    
+    for version in 2.0 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06
+    do
+        wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/files/pwgen/$version/pwgen-$version.tar.gz/download
+    done
+    
+    mkdir pwgen
+    cd pwgen
+    git init
+    cd ..
+    
+    for archive in $(ls pwgen*tar.gz)
+    do
+        tar -xf $archive
+        cd pwgen; git rm -rf *; cd ..
+        archive_dir=$(basename $archive .tar.gz)
+        mv $archive_dir/* pwgen/
+        cd pwgen; git add .; git commit -m "automatic commit for $archive_dir"; cd ..
+        rm -rf $archive_dir
+    done
+
+## Issues
+
+For an overview over the current status on Debian & Ubuntu have a look at the 
+Debian package tracking system (including information about bugs etc):
+<http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pwgen.html>.
+Also helpful: [Ubuntu's Bugtracker for pwgen](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pwgen/).
+
+## The author
+
+* Theodore Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>  
+  Modelled after a program originally written by Brandon S. Allbery, and then later extensively modified by Olaf Titz, Jim Lynch, and others.
+
+[manual page]: http://linux.die.net/man/1/pwgen
+[sourceforge project site]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen
+[Philipp]: https://github.com/pklaus
+
+## Ports to Other Lanugages and Alternatives
+
+* For MS Windows there is [PWGen for Windows](http://pwgen-win.sourceforge.net/).
+* There is a port to PHP: [pwgen-php](http://code.google.com/p/pwgen-php/)
+* and to Javascript: <http://8-p.info/pwgen/>.
+* An alternative with easier to remember passwords: [gpw](http://www.multicians.org/thvv/gpw.html) which is a Trigraph Password Generator written in Java (also available in C/C++ and Javascript)
+* Here is a [discussion of tools for the generaton of memorable passwords](http://superuser.com/questions/237228/linux-tool-to-generate-memorable-passwords).