[PATCH] stop using pwgen

Tobias Girstmair junkgir-passwd at yahoo.de
Sun Dec 18 00:08:16 CET 2016


I'm against it. IMHO the `pass` philosophy is to utilize UNIX tools instead of rolling one's own. 


`base64` is not compatible with any password rules that require a special character. 




Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com> schrieb am 23:57 Samstag, 17.Dezember 2016:
I'll seriously consider replacing pwgen. I didn't know it was so
horrible. I'll investigate and make a decision.

I like the idea of using /dev/urandom directly, but piping it into
base64 is a terrible idea. I've got some ideas on how to do this. I'll
code a few different ones up and see how it goes. I'll also evaluate
pwgen competitors. There was a nice one somebody on this list proposed
a while ago.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Jason

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