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0.1.0 | May 7, 2020 |
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nobrain
This is a small command line utility to (re)generate passwords based on a master key, a domain name (or any other "domain" identifier), and optionnaly a username.
With the single master key to remember, you can regenerate the same password from the same inputs (domain and username) so you do not have to remember them.
The master key is not stored anywhere (only in your brain, so you need to have a little bit of it after all), not passed as a command argument and never displayed so it will not show in bash history, logs, etc.
Generated passwords contains letters, capitals, digits and special characters. We use a custom bas64 encoding on top of a PKBF2/SHA256 hash to provide those features with satisfying variety.
Passwords are 43 characters long most of the time.
Examples
Generate a password for example.com
$ nobrain example.com
Master key: [hidden]
Domain example.com
Your password vh8n0+BXrsTzckt.n08r41n-sEpQKfD0MKXtL1j2Jfs
Of course example.com
is just an arbitrary identifier. It is a good practice
to use the domain name of the website you need a password for, so you do not
need too remember if you used example
, Example
or "Example Site"
…
But any of those will work, too.
Generate a password with a username
Simply add the -u <username>
option.
$ nobrain example.com -u lud
Master key: [hidden]
Domain example.com
Username lud
Your password eeovoS9HN9P:L4CsXf+Atw!6SHYehBjfBV:T.15CFF:
Note that the output is different, because the username is added to the hash. Any change to the username will result in a different password, so any username will have its own password.
Usage
$ nobrain --help
nobrain 0.1.0
USAGE:
nobrain [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <domain>
FLAGS:
-c, --confirm Ask for password confirmation
-h, --help Prints help information
-n, --no-newline Print only the password without linebreak
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-u, --user <username> Add a username [default: ]
ARGS:
<domain>
Dependencies
~7–17MB
~223K SLoC