kieranajp/password-generator

Generates human-readable, but secure, passwords.

v2.0.1 2017-10-27 08:37 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.0
• fzaninotto/faker: ~1.5

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ~4.8@dev

MIT

• Kieran Patel

README

A teeny library to generate memorable yet secure passwords.

Why?

• Existing password managers didn't suit the needs I had for this project, or required you to source your own external wordlist
• I've hacked Faker into a password generator for typeable passwords
  • The project I'm using this in requires secure, generated passwords that are easy to type

Installation

Requires PHP 7.0+. Install with Composer.

$ composer require kieranajp/password-generator

If you require PHP 5.3 - 5.6 support, install v1.

Example usage

To quickly try this out, you can run php example.php. This file contains the basic usage.

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$g = new \Kieranajp\Generator\Generator();
$g->generate(); // [ "Reagan467$Lera^" ]
$g->generate(2); // [ "Christina835$Frami$", "Terrance103:Evie." ]

By default, passwords are of the following format: word - number - symbol - word - symbol. This can easily be changed as follows:

$g->setFormat("word:num:symbol")

The default list of symbols is easy to type by a less-savvy computer user on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Other symbols can be added with $g->addSymbol('🤡') and removed with $g->removeSymbol('🤡').