niceware

A command line tool for generating secure and memorable passwords.

This is a Zig port of niceware with a CLI interface.

See original project README for more information.

Requirements

• Zig 0.12.0

Building

zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseSafe

Running the tests

zig build test

How to use

To get an overview of all commands you can run niceware --help.

from-bytes

Converts from bytes (a hex string) into a passphrase.

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generate

Generates a random passphrase. You may specify an optional size when calling this command.

to-bytes

Converts the passphrase into its bytes representation.

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Credits

This wouldn't be possible without the original.

Huge shoutout to healeycodes for the Rust port. The core library used here is a direct port of it.