$ kilopass
Usage: kilopass [-s SALT] [-f SALTFILE] [-n NONCE] [-g GEN] [-h HELP] <user@domain>
Alternatively, create ~/.kilopass/salt with your salt, preferably chmod 600.
Note that the salt on the command line may be visible to other users on your system. You can generally disable globally user-accessible /proc, or just use ~/.kilopass/salt to store your salt.
The -f saltfile option can be literal (/home/user/.kilopass/salts/dev), or relative dev. If relative with no prefixing /, kilopass will search for a salt at $HOME/.kilopass/salts/(yoursalt).
Generating a password using the default $HOME/.kilopass/salt file:
kilopass -g 1 -n 0 [email protected] && echo ""
Generating a password using a relative path file at $HOME/.kilopass/salts/prod.salt:
kilopass -g 1 -n 0 -f prod.salt [email protected] && echo ""
Generating a password using an absolute path file at $HOME/mysecrets/salt:
kilopass -g 1 -n 0 -f ~/mysecrets/salt [email protected] && echo ""
kilopass is a specification (and shell utility) for saving passwords off of a single hash. It supports a nonce and multiple generation modes, in case a certain service mandates the password be a different length or have certain patterns. The target (user@domain) is generally arbitrary, but following that syntax should get you through most situations. You may want to save your passwords, or at least your generation methods for a while, before relying completely on kilopass.
You can increment the nonce if your password was compromised at whatever login, just make a note that the nonce is higher for that target. Different nonces should generate completely different results. However, different generation modes should not used for the same salt + nonce + target as compromise of one could easily lead to compromise of the others.
A loosely POSIX-compliant system with a bourne shell (/bin/sh) or equivalent.
Uses these utilities, in addition to other more common Unix utilities (cat, tr, head, etc):
- xxd
- base64
- sha256/sha256sum
$ make test # Do this before using kilopass at all to make sure it gives correct output on your system.
# make install # Will copy to /usr/local/bin
All kilopass generators currently use sha256 on a concatenated string of these parts:
- Salt (User specified.)
- ^Nonce^ (User specified, defaults to zero.)
- Target (User specified, has no default.)
In effect, in shell, this is:
$SALT^$NONCE^$TARGET
No passwords will end with a newline. The only characters in the password should be a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and possibly "!" depending on the mode. If mode 0, only lowercase hexadecimal.
This is the ASCII-HEX representation of the sha256sum and nothing more.
This is the default. The sha256sum has Base64 applied with + and / stripped. The first 18 characters/bytes are kept. Keep in mind that this is not the ASCII-HEX representation, but the literal sha256sum which has base64 applied.
This is the same as mode 1, but prefixed with a "z" and suffixed with a "!". 20 characters total, but with 2 guessable.
Same as mode 1, but 10 characters before adding a prefix if "a" (not "z") and a suffix of "!" (just like in mode 2).
Same as mode 1, but 12 total characters.
Same as mode 1, but 8 total characters.
This is a stub indicating that you are manually supplying the password.
This is released under the Unlicense, into the public domain.
Absolutely none. Read the specification and code for yourself and decide, or have a qualified professional review this and decide if it is acceptable.
Send pull requests via GitHub. After you make changes, run test.sh to verify your changes don't break expected behavior.
If you have questions or comments, please send them to
[email protected], or to the following address:
ThousandEyes, Inc.
201 Mission Street #1700
San Francisco, CA 94105
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