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Password Generator

7 pointsby dbremmenover 5 years ago

6 comments

TheDongover 5 years ago
This generates the password on a server you don&#x27;t control.<p>I recommend not using it.<p>Using &#x27;tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 &lt; &#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom | head -c $length&#x27; is more secure and available on your linux or osx machine even more easily than waiting a second for a server to run some java off in a magic black box.
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SomewhatLikelyover 5 years ago
I&#x27;m a fan of the apg linux command because it generates somewhat phonetically prounceable passwords and of course runs locally. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.ubuntu.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;StrongPasswords#APG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.ubuntu.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;StrongPasswords#APG</a>
oeuvizover 5 years ago
I created something similar ~2 decades ago in perl. It would spit out a long list of passwords in text format so you could chose one without the server knowing what you chose.<p>Today, keepass does the job just fine.
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ozgrozerover 5 years ago
A better version of this might be <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;piper.gq&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;piper.gq&#x2F;</a> that I made last month.
dbremmenover 5 years ago
Thanks for all the nice comments that are intended with good karma. What other feature can I add to this password generator that is useful? I agree that using linux is more secure but for passwords that are not as important I think this tool works fine, also you don&#x27;t need to remember a big line of code and you can execute it on your mobile phone
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knownover 5 years ago
I use<p>&lt;&#x2F;dev&#x2F;urandom tr -dc 23456789~*@#$%_+-=qwertQWERTasdfgASDFGzxcvbZXCVB | head -c13; echo &quot;&quot;