Unambiguous Passwords

Fernando Cladera fcladera at fcladera.com
Fri Dec 4 05:35:27 CET 2020


I agree. My patch is alphanumeric without 0OlI. I (trivially) modified the code 
in a similar way to what you mentioned.

Thanks for your help!

Best,

Fernando

On 03/12/20, Richard Kelly wrote:
>"Unambiguous" can be subjective. I sort of like the control offered by the current solution.
>
>In any case, adding a line after this might work:
>https://github.com/zx2c4/password-store/blob/f152064da9832d6d3d2b4e75f43f63bf2d50716f/src/password-store.sh#L516
>
>Something like this:
>		-u|--unambiguous) characters="ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQ...vwxyz1234567890~!@#$%^&*()_-+={}[]|:;<>,.?"; shift ;;
>
>
>On Thu, Dec 3, 2020, at 20:20, Fernando Cladera wrote:
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> Yes, I found the same env variable on the documentation. Nonetheless, I was
>> wondering of a simpler option, such as
>>
>> pass generate -u
>>
>> similar to what -n does.
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Fernando
>>
>> On 03/12/20, Richard Kelly wrote:
>> >Fernando,
>> >
>> >Found this in the man page:
>> >
>> >"The character sets used in generating passwords can be changed with the PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET and PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET_NO_SYMBOLS environment variables, described below."
>> >
>> >Environment Variables
>> >PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET
>> >The character set to be used in password generation for generate. This value is to be interpreted by tr. See tr(1) for more info.
>> >
>> >PASSWORD_STORE_CHARACTER_SET_NO_SYMBOLS
>> >The character set to be used in no-symbol password generation for generate, when --no-symbols, -n is specified. This value is to be interpreted by tr. See tr(1) for more info.
>> >
>> >https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/about/
>> >
>> >Hope that helps,
>> >Richard
>> >
>> >
>> >On Thu, Dec 3, 2020, at 19:42, Fernando Cladera wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> First of all, thanks for such an awesome tool!
>> >>
>> >> I have a comment/question. Is there interest in adding unambiguous no-symbol
>> >> passwords, like Bitcoin does? I.e. removing uppercase letter "O", uppercase
>> >> letter "I", lowercase letter "l", and the number "0" [1].
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Fernando
>> >>
>> >> [1]: https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Bitcoin_address
>> >>
>>


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