What's in a name? What's a sherbang?
A lot of people wonder where the sherbang.com domain name came from. What does it mean?
Unlike our company name (Gozynta), sherbang intentionally has no meaning. I used to use a program called apg to generate relatively secure, random passwords that are pronounceable and so easier to remember. Sherbang was one of the outputs of apg.
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These days for password generation I use completely random passwords and store them in a secure password manager or for the rare few that I need to actually remember I use a technique like https://xkpasswd.net/ to generate memorable passphrases.
I used sherbang as the root password for some systems that I managed for awhile. Later I decided it would be a good username and domain name to use for myself since it's pretty unique. I stopped using it as a password, and now it's my face to the internet.
So, what's a sherbang?
