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pwdsafety

Command-line tool for checking password safety

TLDR

Check a password from stdin
$ echo "[password]" | pwdsafety
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SYNOPSIS

pwdsafety [options]

DESCRIPTION

pwdsafety is a command-line tool that reads passwords from standard input and evaluates their safety. It checks if the password or its reverse is a known common password, verifies basic rules like uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols, and calculates entropy. When the score is 68 or lower, it generates a random stronger password as a suggestion.

CAVEATS

Does not store any password information. Reads only from standard input.

HISTORY

pwdsafety was created by edoardottt and is written in Go.

SEE ALSO

pass(1), pwgen(1)

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