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This xkcd comic has been instrumental to me. I wrote a command-line utility a couple of years ago that I use myself regularly to generate secure and memorable
by codetrotter 3y ago
This xkcd comic has been instrumental to me.
I wrote a command-line utility a couple of years ago that I use myself regularly to generate secure and memorable passwords
https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen
With this tool you can also see how many bits of entropy the passphrase generation settings you are using will result in.
For example, generating a 5 word passphrase using the long wordlist
pgen -l -n 5
will yield a passphrase like:
joyous embolism outsider evasion mashed
And when we ask the tool for the entropy with these settings
pgen -l -n 5 -e
it will tell us:
Current settings will create passphrases with 64.62 bits of entropy.
And hey, if you have reason to not trust the randomness capabilities of the program or your computer guess what :)
My program supports the use of physical dice to generate your password.
Have a look, try it out yourselves :D
https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen
- ryanatdistrust 3y agoIt looks neat, I'll pass this along to the team and take a deeper look at it later.
- sowbug 3y agoAlso generating a BIP39 seed from https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ and using as many words from the output as you want for your purposes.
- avnigo 3y agoThat’s excellent! I had the same idea I completed a few weeks ago in python trying to write it with the standard library and have it be easily auditable. You can check it out here if you want: https://github.com/avnigo/nodice-cli https://github.com/avnigo/nodice-cli
- iraqmtpizza 3y agodibs on joyous embolism outsider evasion mashed. this is my new password
- bombcar 3y agoIt’s better than your last one, hunter2