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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
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    pgen(1) – Passphrase Generator
    story by codetrotter · 2023-08-08 · 0 comments
  4. …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
  5. …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?
  6. …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
  7. …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?
  8. …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
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    Pgen(1) – Passphrase Generator, version 1.1.4 released
    story by codetrotter · 2023-02-17 · 0 comments
  10. …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
  11. …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
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. …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
  15. …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
  16. …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)
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    Pgen – Command-line passphrase generator
    story by codetrotter · 2018-04-17 · 0 comments
  18. …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
  19. 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