Leverages Python's secrets module to generate a secure passphrase from a wordlist
Other than cloning this repo, no installation is required.
All of genpass.py dependencies are Python 3.6 built-in libraries.
By default, genpass.py uses the words.txt file (from commit 11735d0 of dwyl's english-words repo) to generate a passphrase.
words.txt contains words that may include numbers and/or symbols. If you don't want to use words with numbers/symbols in them to generate your password, you can instead use words_alpha.txt by calling genpass.py with the -w option, like this:
./genpass.py -w ./wordlists/words_alpha.txtIf you need, you can update words.txt and/or words_alpha.txt with a later commit from dwyl's repo.
Otherwise, if you so wish, you can create your own wordlist to generate passphrases from, and use them the same way you specify to use words_alpha.txt instead of words.txt.
By default, genpass.py generates a single, 4-word-long passphrase without spaces.
If you want to generate more than one passphrase at once, you can use the -n option to specify an integer value of the number of passphrases you want to generate.
Similarly, if you want to generate a passphrase of custom length, simply use the -l option to specify an integer value of the number of words you want your passphrase to include.
Finally, if you want your passphrase to include spaces (although I don't necessarily recommend this - a surprising number of systems don't support spaces in passwords), simply use --spaces when calling genpass.py.
Pull requests are welcome for this project. Please include as much detail as possible about the changes, including:
- What they are
- Why you've made them or why you think they're needed