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strong-passphrase is a simple command line tool written in Python that you can use to randomly generate a strong passphrase. The tool uses the Python secrets library so the random generation should be secure. We have not made any attempts to scrub the generated password from RAM so if you're worried about some other process getting ahold of it by inspecting memory you should use a different tool.

Installation

To install the script you will first need to install a version of python after 3.9 and then run the following commands:

python3 -m pip install pipx
pipx install strong-passphrase

You might be wondering "What is pipx? Why should I install that?". pipx is a python tool that helps to install python based executables from PyPI. It installs strong-passphrase in it's own virtual environment. This helps keep dependencies for this tool isolated from other Python tools you might have installed on your system.

Usage

Simply run strong-passphrase and a new randomly generated passphrase will be printed to your terminal.