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Command-line passphrase generator

19 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 3 stories, 16 comments · first 2018-02-21 · latest 2024-03-13

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  1. …leftover codeword eruption gnarly skies taco username affidavit I named it pgen Get it from https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen
    comment by codetrotter · 2024-03-13 · in Insult Passphrase Generator
  2. …long memorable passphrases, I have an open source cli tool I wrote for that, which I myself use. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen Give it a spin
    comment by codetrotter · 2023-09-23 · in LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ Is Strong Password
  3. …a couple of years ago that I use myself regularly to generate secure and memorable passwords 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…
    comment by codetrotter · 2023-08-08 · in Milk Sad Disclosure
  4. …which I actively use myself for generating passphrases, it’s called Pgen and it’s open source at https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen
    comment by codetrotter · 2023-06-20 · in Ask HN: When was the last time you lost data?
  5. …different name for my passphrase generator. I named it “Pgen” and I use it several times per month. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen Perhaps “passblazer” or something would have been a better name :thinking: Unfortunately, it’s not really…
    comment by codetrotter · 2023-05-26 · in Names are not descriptions; descriptions are not names
  6. …use myself, and which other people are using as well. The prime example of this is my Pgen project. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen Pgen is a passphrase generator that uses the EFF wordlists for random passphrases. A typical passphrase…
    comment by codetrotter · 2023-05-18 · in Ask HN: What's your greatest achievement on GitHub?
  7. …I’ve been using this generator myself for quite a while. It runs locally on your machine. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen
    comment by codetrotter · 2023-04-12 · in Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages
  8. …2. Use pass phrases with many words but without any numbers or special characters. See also https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen (For websites etc I use a password manager.)
    comment by codetrotter · 2022-06-07 · in I've locked myself out of my digital life
  9. …a few different options, including one that will tell you what the passphrase entropy would be. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen
    comment by codetrotter · 2020-11-08 · in Finally: A usable and secure password policy backed by science
  10. …websites I use a password manager, and I sometimes generate passwords with my own diceware software https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen but most often I am on my phone or on my laptop and then I use the password generator of the password manager…
    comment by codetrotter · 2020-08-21 · in ‘DiceKeys’ creates a master password for life with one roll
  11. …just speaks to how fast this tool is ^^ Source and instructions on how to install it are on GitHub. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen
    comment by codetrotter · 2019-05-30 · in SaaS CTO Security Checklist
  12. …all there is to know about it but feel free to ask any questions anyone might have about it. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen
    comment by codetrotter · 2019-03-08 · in Writing a Simple Password Generator in Racket
  13. …README explains all there is to know about it but feel free to ask any questions anyone might have. https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen
    comment by codetrotter · 2019-03-04 · in The password “ji32k7au4a83” has been seen over a hundred times
  14. …open already anyways so I paste back into it and modify the password to suit the requirements. [1]: https://github.com/ctsrc/pgen
    comment by codetrotter · 2018-05-11 · in What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (2012)
  15. …a guarantee that the code being built is the code the suspicious user actually inspected: git clone https://github.com/ctsrc/pgen cd pgen less src/main.rs build.rs # etc. cargo install # (installs the current package) And, one would have…
    comment by dbaupp · 2018-02-23 · in "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords
  16. On the topic of passwords, have a look at my command-line passphrase generation program. GitHub: https://github.com/ctsrc/pgen It's written in Rust. Install the Rust toolchain installer from https://rustup.rs/ curl https://sh.rustup.rs…
    comment by yarwelp_ · 2018-02-21 · in "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords