pass generate-phrase

a passphrase generator for pass

installation

basically, as described here: https://www.passwordstore.org/#extensions

for a user installation that should be

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/puhoy/pass-generate-phrase/master/generate-phrase/generate-phrase.bash -P ~/.password-store/.extensions/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/puhoy/pass-generate-phrase/master/generate-phrase/eff_large_wordlist.txt -P ~/.password-store/.extensions/

# and make the script executable
chmod +x ~/.password-store/.extensions/generate-phrase.bash

and set PASSWORD_STORE_ENABLE_EXTENSIONS environment variable to true

and for a system wide installation

put generate-phrase.bash and eff_large_wordlist.txt in /usr/lib/password-store/extensions (or whatever that is for your distribution)

and make the script executable:

/usr/lib/password-store/extensions/generate-phrase.bash

(no need to set the environment var)

usage

pass generate-phrase
    [--wordcount,-w wordcount] 
    [--wordlist,-l wordlist]
    [--separator,-s separator] 
    [--randomupper,-u] 
    [--clip,-c]
    [--qrcode,-q]
    [--in-place,-i | --force,-f]
    pass-name

    generate a passphrase with WORDCOUNT (or 4) words,
    made from words in WORDLIST* (or the EFFs long wordlist**),
    separated by SEPARATOR (or "-")

    * a diceware list, each line like "11111 banana"
    **https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

options

--wordcount, -w N

generate N words (default 4)

--wordlist, -l /path/to/list

use file under /path/to/list instead of included wordlist

(default the EFFs long wordlist)

--separator, -s SEPARATOR

use SEPARATOR to separate the words (default "-")

--randomupper,-u

randomly uppercase words

...for example

$ pass generate-phrase my/new/testpassword
mkdir: created directory '/home/USER/.password-store/my'
mkdir: created directory '/home/USER/.password-store/my/new'
[master 045a5d5] Add generated password for my/new/testpassword.
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 my/new/testpassword.gpg
The generated password for my/new/testpassword is:
filing-choice-gecko-campus


$ pass generate-phrase my/new/testpassword --separator="+" --wordcount 8 --wordlist diceware_german.txt --randomupper
An entry already exists for my/new/testpassword. Overwrite it? [y/N] y
[master 15b7123] Add generated password for my/new/testpassword.
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 rewrite my/new/testpassword.gpg (100%)
The generated password for my/new/testpassword is:
oben+UO+GEPARD+wq+HUEPFTE+WONNE+zitrat+TOD

the wordlist

its the EFFs "long wordlist" from here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases