randall

randall

The program randall implements a password generator based on a sequence of words, similar to Diceware. It includes the EFF's large diceware worldist as well as a German wordlist.

Usage

Get help:

$ randall --help
Usage of randall:
  -n, --passphrases n       generate n passphrases (default 1)
  -r, --reconstruct         interactively reconstruct a password based on a wordlist
  -l, --wordlist wordlist   use wordlist as the source for words (valid: en, de) (default "en")
  -w, --words n             generate passphrase with n words (default 5)

Generate passphrase with four words in German:

$ randall --wordlist de --words 4
SchlangeWaldQuasiToll

Reconstruct passphrase interactively:

$ randall --wordlist de --words 4 --reconstruct
reconstruct password consisting of 4 words using wordlist de

type first word, complete with <tab>, press <enter> to add word
> Schlange
add word "Schlange" to password
Schlange > Wald
add word "Wald" to password
SchlangeWald > Quasi
add word "Quasi" to password
SchlangeWaldQuasi > Toll
add word "Toll" to password
password is: SchlangeWaldQuasiToll