From 3a947ed6daeda143ff81c6eb6b8e09d9a4579961 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 01:31:42 +0200 Subject: add readme MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- README | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3dc21b --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +passcheck is a tool that rates passphrases based on the strengths, +a highly rated passphrase is a string passphrase. + +Personally I suggest not using any passphrases rated below 250. + +The program parses each line (must end exactly with one UNIX line break) +as a password and puts the (positive integer) rating before the passphrase +seperated with one blankspace. + +The program supports colour in the passphrase and ignores them unless +--raw (or -r) is used as an option. This is done because colours cannot +be copied from any regular terminal. + +Passphrases are read from stdin and the rating followed by the passphrase +for each passphrases is written t stdout, and stderr is quited unless the +program files. + +You may want to pipe stdout to `sort -n` to get the strongest passphrase +at the buttom. + +Currently, evaluation based on grammar is not made, so please manually +change that the passphrase you choose does not form a grammatically +correct sentence, and perferablly, not even in part. + -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2