Create diceware like passwords from terminal. Possible to use them with keyboard shortcut. You may choose from arbitrary diceware wordlists, some are already provided within the repo.
Put the file mkdice to your local ~/bin folder or wherever you have your custom scripts stored in.
You then need to create the default folder ~/.diceware_wordlists for the wordlists und put the *.txt there.
- You can either move the provided folder using the command
mv .diceware_wordlists ~/within the repo folder. - Or you just create a symbolic link using the command
ln -s .diceware_wordlists ~/.diceware_wordlistswithin the repo folder.
You dont need to do that, if you provide full path to wordlist with -F
Command mkdice in terminal returns a 3 word passphrase
You can use parameters to modify the output (like mkdice -l 5 -sxd _)
-l length of the passphrase, number of words used (default 3)
-F full path to used diceware list
-f filename of used diceware list within default folder ~/.diceware_wordlists
-r source of the entropy to choose random words (default /dev/urandom)
-d delimiter between the words (default -)
-D delimiter between the words in the clipboard (default same as -d)
-x the passphrase will also be available in the clipboard (paste it with strg+v)
-U the first letter of each word will be Uppercase
-s silent, the passphrase will not be returned to the terminal (standard output)
-z the passphrase will be shown with zenity information (if available)
Its most handy to create a keyboard shortcut for your preffered command and use it with -x or -z to have the passphrase available.