password_gen 0.2dev

Generates memorable strong passwords.

During my recent encounter on an article about the vulnerability of weak passwords, I was enlightened on the dangers of weak passwords, which includes single-handedly serving as the “weakest link” to a web server. In details, if my weak password is guessed by an hacker, the whole web server of the site is vulnerable.

# password-generator: CLI program that generates a memorable, but absolutely random, password. The password generated would have four words seperated by either digits or special characters.

# “I want to use it”: Feel free to clone/fork it. ## Before runnning create.py: You’ll need to fill in: 1. env/env.sh: the default values for the range of values. EX: DIG_START=’2’, DIG_STOP=’6’. This sets the range for DIGITS to [2,6]. The generator will randomly use a digit between 2 and 6.

Make sure the range for CHARACTERS is valid ascii values for special characters.

2. create.py: dictionary.txt, which holds the words used by the generator. You can create yours by getting a datasets of words (from sources like [google-10000-english](https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english)) and using scraper.py to save words to dictionary.txt.

Make sure to set the file paths in `create.py`, and `scraper.py` if you’ll use it. ## Program output: For readaility, spaces are added to the password generated. # Future updates: 1. Error handling 2. REST API

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