CliPass is a command line interface tool which reads in data from a file, ~/.config/clipass/entropy and stores a subset of that data into your clipboard.
Longer passwords can be more secure; therefore, more annoying to enter manually. CliPass will read data from a specified offset, store it into your clipboard, and that can be used as a password which you can paste. The clipboard is cleared after 5 seconds.
The user is responsible for creating the entropy file ~/.config/clipass/entropy.data The user must make this file read-only by themselves (chmod 400).
CliPass also has the ability to generate entroypy files based on the /dev/urandom. All of the data is converted to 7-bit printable ASCII, since it is common to require passwords within the printable character set.
You are responsible for how you use this tool. Passwords can be a bad form of securing information; however, it's still common practice. In an ideal world, it would be great to eliminate passwords entirely. But lets at least do better, e.g., making a long password can help, and that's what clipass does, and also eliminates the hassle of having to remember the lengthy passwords.
- Create a password entropy file (~/.config/clipass/entropy.data) see the '-g' option.
- Remember just the offset into your entropy file (by default all passwords are 64 characters long).
- ClipAss will automatically copy to your primary clipboard, 64 bytes from the entropy file starting from your specified offset.
- Paste the contents of your clipboard into whatever password form.
- ClipAss will automatically clear the clipboard contents. Or you can just run the tool again if you are paranoid (which is a good thing, the paranoia).
This is a great source to get an idea of how X11 selections work (e.g., "clipboard" from an X environment).
Simply run make to build.
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