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Pgen
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ctsrc / Pgen

Pgen

Command-line passphrase generator

3Distinct people
19Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
144GitHub stars
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What it is

Command-line passphrase generator

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:28:18 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-02-21 20:38:15 UTC to 2024-03-13 11:08:45 UTC.

024682018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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correct battery horse staple, but longer and sensible but still unique, and optionally without space. Make up a sentence that makes sense to you, and remove all the spaces, use all lowercase and no special characters. Forgettable: 5uP3r53kr17P455w00r[)!!11One Memorable: ilikestartrekandhamandbeans I used to have full-disk encryption on one of my machines using a password of the forgettable kind. But then the machine had an uptime of months until a power outage, and I realized that while I was fairly sure of the sentence I had no possibility of remembering all of the uppercase and lowercase and symbol and number substitutions. I lost quite a bit of data that day. After that I began using a sentence that makes sense to me but which is not from a book or anything like that for the FDE on my desktop and external hard drives, and I use the pas
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s phrase frequently. Simplicity and repetition is the key to remember your master password. As for websites I use a password manager, and I sometimes generate passwords with my own diceware software https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen but most often I am on my phone or on my laptop and then I use the password generator of the password manager that comes with those Apple devices. I haven’t lost any more data since switching to managing my data encryption and my passwords this way.
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