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erAck on Feb 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords

https://defuse.ca/passgen.htm uses /dev/(u)random on Linux and CryptGenRandom() on Windows, with source code on GitHub for Linux https://github.com/defuse/passgen and https://github.com/defuse/WinPassGen

Without a pile of dependencies :P

yarwelp_ on Feb 21, 2018 [–]

Mine makes use of a friendly wordlist so that is my selling point, though I forgot to mention that because it already says so in my README but I should have said it in my comment too.

erAck on Feb 22, 2018 | [–]

The other passgen also can use a wordlist.

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