gen-passwd: Create wordlist-based passwords easily

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Versions [RSS] 1.0.0.0, 1.1.0.0
Dependencies base (>=4.7 && <5), bytestring (>=0.10.8.1 && <0.11), optparse-applicative (>=0.13.2.0 && <0.14), random (>=1.1 && <1.2), vector (>=0.11.0.0 && <0.12) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Anton Felix Lorenzen
Maintainer Anton Felix Lorenzen <anfelor@posteo.de>
Category CLI
Home page https://github.com/anfelor/gen-passwd#readme
Bug tracker https://github.com/anfelor/gen-passwd/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/anfelor/gen-passwd
Uploaded by anfelor at 2017-07-01T19:08:09Z
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Executables gen-passwd
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Readme for gen-passwd-1.1.0.0

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A simple password generator

gen-passwd - a password generator

Usage: gen-passwd [--short] [--special] [--count INT] [--delimiter ARG]
                  [--acrostic ARG]
  Print a wordlist-based password

Available options:
  --short                  Use the EFF list of short words
  --special                Use the EFF list of special words
  --count INT              The number of passwords (default: 1)
  --delimiter ARG          The delimiter to use (default: " ")
  --acrostic ARG           The first letters of the words form this
                           word. (default: "")
  -h,--help                Show this help text

XKCD 936

You can find a longer explanation of this technique in this EFF article, along with the word list used by this program.