chbs

An implementation of http://xkcd.com/936/, aka "correct horse battery staple".

I.e. pick four random, common words and string them together to make a very strong but easy to remember password.

The default corpus (word list) contains the most common words in TV and movie scripts.

Additional corpora are included:

• gutenberg: The most common words from Project Gutenberg, gives your passwords a bit more of an old-timey feel.
• babynames: The top 1000 boy and girl names from the US Social Security Administration.
• coca: The top 5000 words from the Corpus of Contemporary American English

Installation

Install it yourself as:

$ gem install chbs

Or add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'chbs'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

Just running chbs with no options will be sufficient in most cases.

Decrease max rank, -R 1000 for example, to get more common words and thus more easily remembered passwords. You can have chbs generate a bunch of passwords, -c 20 for example, and pick one that you like.

Usage: chbs [options]
  -C, --corpus=CORPUS      Corpus of words
      --list-corpora       List included corpora
  -l, --min-length=MIN     Minimum word length [4]
  -L, --max-length=MAX     Maximum word length [10]
  -r, --min-rank=MIN       Minimum word rank [1]
  -R, --max-rank=MAX       Maximum word rank [10000]
  -n, --num-words=NUM      Number of words [4]
  -p, --phrase-length=LEN  Length of passphrase
  -s, --separator=STRING   Word separator [-]
  -c, --count=COUNT        Number of passwords [1]

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request