NAME

diceware - generate diceware passwords

SYNOPSIS

diceware [-d delimiting_character][-l|-s][-w word_number]

DESCRIPTION

Diceware is a script that will generate passwords using the password lists created by the EFF.

To install this script, please place the diceware file in a folder found in your $PATH. The location ~/.local/bin is usually good.

If you don't already have the password lists the script will download them for you.

OPTIONS

[ -d | --delim ] Sets delimiter between words. (Default: ' ')
[ -h | --help  ] Usage information.
[ -l | --large ] Generate with large wordlist. (Default)
[ -s | --short ] Generate with short wordlist.
[ -w | --words ] Number of words to generate.  (Default: 6)
                 (WARNING: Anything less than 5 is considered insecure.)

ENVIRONMENT

XDG_DATA_HOME

Base directory for storing the diceware directory, and the EFF password lists.

FILES

${XDG_DATA_HOME}/diceware/eff_large_wordlist.txt
${XDG_DATA_HOME}/diceware/eff_short_wordlist_2_0.txt

Password lists from the EFF; are found at https://www.eff.org/dice

NOTES

This script depends on GNU getopt and either wget or curl should be present on the system.

EXAMPLE

The following takes 4 words from the password list, and delimits them with a : character.

$ diceware -d : -w 4
flagstone:crane:dropbox:hunter