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Show HN: Fast, human-friendly passphrase generator written in Rust (crates.io)
5 points by yarwelp_ on Jan 18, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Main features:

* Fast

* Makes use of EFF wordlists which were designed to contain human-friendly words as opposed to the arcane and obscure and strange words found in e.g. /usr/share/dict/words.

* Single binary with wordlists compiled into it.

* It can tell you the password entropy if you'd like it to.

* You can use physical dice if you like. By default it will use the OS provided CSPRNG.

Installation:

1) Install Rust - https://rustup.rs/

2) cargo install pgen


Was a bit annoying to install with the rust toolchain from the Ubuntu/Elementary Freya repositories because the outdated compiler would fail on the bitflags package. With the toolchain installed through rustup it works well. Now I only need to become accustomed to these kinds of passwords.




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