https://github.com/devbisme/psswrd
Simple script with a GUI that generates pronounceable passwords and places them on the clipboard.
https://github.com/devbisme/psswrd
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Simple script with a GUI that generates pronounceable passwords and places them on the clipboard.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/devbisme/psswrd
- Owner: devbisme
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-06-30T19:28:39.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-06-30T21:00:34.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-08T06:36:07.807Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: gui-application, n-grams, password-generator, pronounceable
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 218 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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README
# psswrd
Simple script with a GUI that generates pronounceable passwords and places them on the clipboard.
## Description
I always have to make passwords and answer security questions.
This script makes it easy to create random text strings and paste them into forms.
## Installation
Install `psswrd` as follows:
```bash
pip install psswrd
```
## Usage
Use `psswrd` as follows:
1. Start the GUI.
2. A random password will appear in the `Password` field. It will also be copied onto the clipboard.
3. If you like the password, press `Done` and `psswrd` will close.
4. If you don't like the password, press `Again` and another password will appear and be copied onto the clipboard.
5. If there are restrictions on allowable passwords, you can specify a format in the `Template` field using the following characters:
1. `l` stands for a random lowercase letter from `a-z`.
2. `u` stands for a random uppercase letter from `A-Z`.
3. `m` stands for a random mixed-case letter from `A-Za-z`.
4. `d` stands for a random digit from `0-9`.
5. `p` stands for a random punctuation character from `!@#$%&*+-=?;`.
6. Any other character is copied directly into the password.
## FAQ
### Why do you say the passwords are pronounceable?
The letters A-Z are randomly selected such that they follow a probability distribution based on trigrams
extracted from a corpus of text. So the strings of letters kind of look like words and are often
pronounceable although it's not guaranteed.
### What text is used for the corpus?
The probability distribution of letter trigrams was generated from the text of the short story ["Day of the Comet"](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65726) found on Project Gutenberg.