CryptNET Password Generator

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NAME

<passgen> - A password candidate generator

SYNOPSIS

passgen [options]

options: [-aAChHlLNrsuUv] [--help] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

passgen generates a list of password candidates for the user to choose from by mapping operating system sources of pseudorandomness into printable character arrays with a mod operation.

By default, /dev/random is used as the source for entropy. If a large number of password candidates are being generated the process may be slowed while the device blocks. This can avoided by using the -u flag, which will cause the nonblocking urandom device as the entropy source.

OPTIONS

-a

Generate password candidates alpha numeric characters only.

-A

Generate password candidates using alphabetic characters only.

-C

Suppress config file not found message.

-h

Displays help text.

-H

Homoglyph suppression level (0-2)

: 0 - No homoglyph suppression.

: 1 - Suppress font homoglyphs such as zero, capital 'o' (oscar), one, and lowercase 'l' (lema).

: 2 - Suppress font homoglyphs and potential character homoglyphs such as backtick, apostrophe, double quote, space, and underbar.

-l

Specifies the length of the passwords to be generated.

-L

For any letters, use lowercase only.

-n

Specifies the number of passwords to be generated.

-N

Generate password candidates using numeric charaters only.

-r

Use the blocking /dev/random device for password candidate generation.

-s

Exclude the space character from generated password candidates.

-u

Use the non-blocking /dev/urandom device to speed password candidate generation.

-U

For any letters, use uppercase only.

-v

Display program version information.

--help

Display help text.

--version

Display program version information.

BUGS

There are no known bugs.

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Time: 17:02:11 GMT, June 18, 2011