A Perl module and terminal command for generating secure memorable passwords inspired by the Steve Gibson's Password Haystacks and the fabulous XKCD web comic. This is the library that drives www.xkpasswd.net

• Project Home Page: www.bartb.ie/xkpasswd - please consider making a donation here
• CPAN Page
• Perl POD Documentation

This library is provided entirely free of charge under a very liberal free licence. It has taken a signifficant amount of time to write, and continues to take time to maintain and update. If you'd like to contribute towards that time and effort, please consider making a donation at the project's home page (linked above).

The latest stable release of this module is available via CPAN:

sudo cpan Crypt::HSXKPasswd

You can manually build any version of the module by downloading the code and executing the following in the root directory of the download:

perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install

If you prefer to install the module into your home directory rather than system-wide, you can do so with perlbrew. This is particularly useful if you do not have sudo access. You'll find instructions in this blog post.

Generate a single password with all the default settings:

hsxkpasswd

Get a list of defined presets:

hsxkpasswd -l

Generate 10 passwords from a preset:

hsxkpasswd -p XKCD 10

This sample file assumes the module has been successfully installed.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Crypt::HSXKPasswd;

print hsxkpasswd(preset => 'WEB32')."\n";