genpass.js

A Sane, Self-Hosted Password Generator

function generatePassword() {
  // chosen by fair dice roll.
  // guaranteed to be random.
  return "(9!q6r48w,bP,d=M";
}

Features

• Sane defaults (Base58 + Safe special characters)
• Options for Base62, Base58, Base36, Base32 (Crockford), and Hex
• or use your own custom character set
• Choose which special characters
• Choose length by Character count or Bit entropy

JavaScript

npm install --save @root/genpass

import GenPass from "@root/genpass";

let entropy = GenPass.generateBytes();
let charset = GenPass.bases.base58 + GenPass.specials.safe;
let password = GenPass.encodeChars(charset, entropy, 16);
console.info(password);

Self-Host

1. Clone to your sites directory

   mkdir -p ./srv/www/
   pushd ./srv/www/
   git clone https://github.com/bnnanet/genpass.js.git \
       --branch gh-pages --depth 1 \
       ./genpass.example.com

2. Add to your Caddyfile config

   genpass.example.com {
        encode gzip zstd
   
        file_server {
                root ./genpass.example.com/
        }
   }

3. Install caddy and serviceman, if needed

   curl https://webinstall.dev/webi | sh
   source ~/.config/envman/PATH.env
   
   webi caddy serviceman

4. Add to system services

   serviceman add -- caddy run --config ./Caddyfile --adapter caddyfile

API Notes

• GenPass.hypenate(str) has somewhat arbitrary rules that may change
• GenPass.specials.safe is based on personal experience and may change