From: David Kerkeslager <kerkeslager@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:42:51 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Add a password generator
X-Git-Url: https://code.kerkeslager.com/?p=sandbox;a=commitdiff_plain;h=545381e1397107d4ab00d2e54d85d3e11d98e4f1

Add a password generator
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diff --git a/passgener.py b/passgener.py
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+++ b/passgener.py
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+import math, os, sys
+
+PASSWORD_MIN_BITS_ENTROPY = 256
+
+def open_dict():
+    try:
+        return open('/usr/share/dict/words')
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        return open(' /usr/dict/words')
+
+with open_dict() as dict_file:
+    dict_words = dict_file.readlines()
+
+dict_word_count = len(dict_words)
+
+passphrase_word_count = math.ceil(math.log(2**PASSWORD_MIN_BITS_ENTROPY, dict_word_count))
+
+bytes_entropy_per_word = math.ceil(math.log(dict_word_count, 2**8))
+
+print(bytes_entropy_per_word)
+
+def rand_word():
+    try:
+        return dict_words[int.from_bytes(os.urandom(bytes_entropy_per_word), byteorder='little')].strip()
+    except IndexError:
+        return rand_word()
+
+passphrase = ' '.join(rand_word() for i in range(passphrase_word_count))
+
+print(passphrase)