Phraser Readme

• Make sure you have a recent version of Go-lang installed.
• Clone this repository
• Run go build -o phraser and then ensure the binary is in your $PATH.

Generate a list using the Large Wordlist; with 6 words:

 phraser long

Access the inline help via the -h flag.

 phraser -h

Create a pass phrase from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Word List. The
'phraser' command provides additional options to help you match the criteria of
various password validation strategies.
This command creates a pass phrase of a number segments (-n). The command
generates the passphrase via by evaluating the pattern (-p) for each segment,
then joining (-j) the segments to create a line of text suitable for a
password.
Usage:
 phraser [short medium long] [flags]
Flags:
 -c, --characters string corpus of special characters (default "!@#$%&*")
 -h, --help help for phraser
 -j, --join string join the segments with this text (default " ")
 -n, --numberOfSegments int number of segments in the passphrase (default 6)
 -p, --pattern string pattern for each segment:
 w :: lower case word
 c :: character
 W :: title-case word
 d :: digit
 Example: "wdd" would be a lower-case word
 followed by two random digits. (default "w")

For those that would rather grab a clutch of six-sided dice and roll up a (削除) character (削除ここまで) passphrase, you can use the files provided with this repository:

Long Words

roll 5d6, 6 times (as Gygax proposed in Unearthed Arcana).

Medium Words

roll 4d6, 6 times (no drop lowest like 3rd edition and later). These are perhaps more memorable words.

Short Words

roll 4d6, 6 times (no drop lowest like 3rd edition and later). These are shorter but perhaps less memorable.