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supergenpass
Python2010–2013
timbertson / supergenpass

supergenpass

[abandoned] reimplementation of supergenpass algorithm in python, with OS integration

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
24GitHub stars
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[abandoned] reimplementation of supergenpass algorithm in python, with OS integration

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Observed mentions: 2010-03-15 07:30:38 UTC to 2013-10-03 21:58:31 UTC.

012010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013

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20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Yep. Doing this on OS X and launching it via Alfred. I'd rather not share the script solely because I don't want to be responsible for some bug or bad idea that could cause you or anybody else problems. However, I can share some inspiration to get started: SuperGenPass (the original place I saw the idea): http://supergenpass.com A fork of SuperGenPass using bcrypt/base85: https://github.com/cmcnulty/SuperGenPass I wouldn't use either of the above because they're JavaScript-based, but someone has implemented it in Python: https://github.com/gfxmonk/supergenpass I took that script as inspiration, modified it to use bcrypt, and then used the Python "keyring" module for access to the OS X keychain, and calling "osascript" to use an AppleScript one-liner to get Safari's front-most URL as an input. It does potentially have the side-benefit of p
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rotecting against phishing attacks too, since if the domain is different, the password is different, so you can't be fooled into giving your password to the wrong website.
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