Show HN: PW - Simple, secure & cross-platform password generator

by simontabor • 13 years ago

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danpalmer4• 13 years ago

Looks interesting, but I might be missing something here, what actually is it?

Why does it need the service and a password, isn't it generating a password? And how is it cross-platform, it looks like it's web based?

simontabor7• 13 years ago

Probably didn't make it clear enough, it's repeatable so you'd use Twitter as the service and whatever password you usually use (master password), it'd come back with a hash and you use that as your Twitter password. Whenever you need your Twitter password, you repeat the process.

https://github.com/simontabor/pw - it's got node-webkit so there's a mac app in that repo and should also work on Windows + Linux nicely (this is simply to take it out of the browser where it's easy to lose tabs and put it in a clean, small window)

danpalmer4• 13 years ago

It's a nice touch to provide a local application to run as there is no way people should be doing this in the browser. You might want to remove the tracking from the local app though, even if it is for analytics purposes, I don't want something that deals with passwords like this to be phoning home.

ugexe4• 13 years ago

Making all the passwords the same length makes this essentially pointless.

simontabor7• 13 years ago

It's a repeatable SHA1 hash, what more do you want?

ugexe4• 13 years ago

I don't want everyone to know the length of my password that's for sure.

danpalmer4• 13 years ago

echo "service-password" | openssl sha

This is a quick alternative that should work on Mac OS and Linux, and Windows when openssl has been installed in a similar way.

Show HN: PW - Simple, secure & cross-platform password generator

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