Password protection

Looking for suggestions:

I want to protect access to an application via a password. I want the  
password to automatically change daily. I want the application to be  
able to determine today's password without having to read it from an  
external source (i.e., algorithmically/programmatically derived). This  
last requirement means:

	o no special profile with password changed daily
	o no validation list use
	o no encrypted password stored in external object such as *FILE or  
*DTAARA

I envisage:
	o Application objects are *PUBLIC *EXCLUDE
	o Application objects are authorised to a specific group profile
	o Password generator is *PUBLIC *EXCLUDE
	o Password generator is authorised to a specific profile (different  
from the above)

In actual use a user who is a member of the application group AND who  
needs to use this particular application will request the password  
from an authorised issuer. The issuer will use the password generator  
to determine today's password. The user will then use the application.

The "automatic daily change" requirement means the password generation/ 
validation is tied to the date but obviously simple encryption linked  
to the date will not be very secure nor will each daily password be  
sufficiently different from the previous one.

I have some ideas but thought I would see what others suggest--always  
presuming you think this sufficiently interesting to bother with :)

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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