virtualkeyring 1.0

Goal

This utility script helps generate a set of rebuildable domain-specific strong passwords out of a single easy to remember master password and domain specific keys such as “login@host”.

The generated passwords are strong since they use 8 characters out of a 62 characters long alphabet (lowercase and uppercase letters + digits) that are not to be found in any dictionary.

You can always re-generate your passwords by taking the base 62 encoding of the sha1 hash of the concatenation of your master password and domain key.

Install

With setuptools:

$ easy_install -U virtualkeyring

Usage

Use the interactive command-line tool vkr that should now be in your PATH, and type in you master password and domain key:

$ vkr
master password: mysecret
domain key [e.g. 'login@host']: foobar@example.com
your password is: hRnf6udB
please clean your console (ctrl-L) after usage

Online version

I plan to run a pylons-based version of the script at https://oliviergrisel.org/virtualkeyring . However you should not trust my server but rather run your own instance of the app on a server you trust:

$ easy_install pylons-virtualkeyring
$ paster create -t virtualkeyring myvkrinstance
$ cd myvkrinstance
$ paster serve production.ini