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redacted / XKCD-password-generator

Generate secure multiword passwords/passphrases, inspired by XKCD
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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[FR] allow uppercase, number and special characters in password #118

Closed fazlerabbi37 closed 10 months ago

fazlerabbi37 commented 4 years ago

I have been using XKCD-password-generator for a monh now and I think it is awesome! I know the whole point of the XKCD-password-generator is to be a memorable password but there are some websites that will not accept a lower case only password. SO I guess some easy substitution with uppercase, number or special characters would not be a big trouble.

For example, the KeePass plugin Readable Passphrase Generator has a setting call 'Mutators' which can be set to 'Standard' where it mutates the password with number and uppercase.

redacted commented 4 years ago

The current --case / -C flag allows some mutation, and the --delimiter argument might help with special characters or numbers. Adding in "1337" style mutation might be worth looking at though (i.e., replacing a certain percentage of letters with a number, e to 3 etc. Would that address your request?

fazlerabbi37 commented 4 years ago

Well I installed the apt version of the software which is old and I didn't notice the switches, my bad. The -C flag solves the case problem.

This is just a thought that it would be great if we could put multiple delimiters to be used one after another like:

xkcdpass -d='|,>'
handheld|unruly,sarcastic>AMIGO|pebbly,neuter

and the "1337" like mutation would solve the entire problem I described.