genpass

A simple yet robust commandline random password generator.

Multiplatform (Linux, Mac, Windows). Fast.

Has extensive generative test suite, including tests against a Rust port of Dropbox's password strength tester zxcvbn

Installation

On a system with Rust installed:

$ cargo install genpass

Usage

$ genpass -h

USAGE:
    genpass [FLAGS] [length]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -d               Include at least one digit
    -l               Include at least one lowercase letter
    -s               Include at least one (non alphanumeric) special character
    -u               Include at least one uppercase letter
    -V, --version    Prints version information

ARGS:
    <length>     [default: 32]

A road to 1.0

TODOs to get genpass to 1.0

• support custom sets of characters
• add benchmarks

Contributing

All contributions welcome ! Ideally - start a discussion with an issue first before contributing a PR.