https://github.com/defuse/passgen

A password generator.
https://github.com/defuse/passgen

Last synced: over 1 year ago
JSON representation

A password generator.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/defuse/passgen
• Owner: defuse
• Created: 2013-04-26T03:47:52.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-05-19T14:43:01.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-27T18:01:31.541Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 221 KB
• Stars: 81
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 24
• Open Issues: 22
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: license/LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

          
passgen

=======

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/defuse/passgen.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/defuse/passgen)

[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/defuse/passgen/badge.png?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/r/defuse/passgen?branch=master)

`passgen` is a unix command line tool for generating passwords. It generates

passwords by turning bytes from `/dev/urandom` into characters in the desired

character set using the try-and-throw-away algorithm from Section 9.7 of

Cryptography Engineering (Ferguson, Schneier, Kohno).

It supports generating passwords with characters chosen from printable ASCII,

alphanumeric, and hex characters, as well as a string of random words.

Examples

--------

    $ passgen --ascii

    |;aeQ;_mLh$7!eLVtm3MUm|068El?)i=IK#+uv&{gN+}18bNp:BCuq[^,"B~

    $ passgen --alpha

    g8168URzTJYuxhEjI3LTsoC9tRfwuwhZz4GtRFiJbPh3ZuhNvJs8qaHvb4OxdHL6

    $ passgen --hex

    4BE6BDA72CB2BB6CC5E163B6209B7489733031C4D150DC013AA4477D26C863C8

    $ passgen --digit

    4104130170392073625297173179140853172681003693080726492644488275

    $ ./passgen --lower

    kbwbjothonqxxcwswofxiviasqvgzzemzwcqltfgmvnyljhbshpqerxyenqdxtgo

    $ passgen --words

    wig.slime.sip.silas.joyce.whelm.rhino.facile.wacky.accrue............

    $ passgen --hex -p 5

    753924DC422047A0D9FFDDEE87BCF6BA65D992EE317178D1C77BDE46DAC13C42

    1ABFFDA08CD24BBD34590D183EE25C610A6B9CCD9847081A786B0061EF312769

    2C065D5BD06412C6BE08C47F728D8AB9A099B5C42102517897426D9CF5420DCA

    239EDCE8E3788F8E86383411EBA7A3E819F8897C263327AA20503D563E59733B

    C2A980F8DFCC686F389B5CB96D30701C22D0B7B6BF2D732F7CD1364D81D949CC

Audit Status

------------

`passgen` has not yet been subjected to a professional security audit (except by

its author, of course). This is being tracked in

[GitHub Issue #7](https://github.com/defuse/passgen/issues/7).