The password generator uses the 1Password Strong Password Generator as inspiration for generating passwords, with a few modifications. The "memorable" passwords that my tool generates uses words from a list of about ~5000 English words that are between 5-8 characters.
The analysis uses The Password Meter as inspiration for the "common attributes" factors used to score passwords, with a few modifications. A strength rating of 100% is given to passwords that score 150 or higher. These are based loosely around the minimum requirements that many applications set for user accounts.
For "brute-force attack resistance", zxcvbn is used to test password strength against brute force attacks. I used an elixir port of this library for this project. Dan Wheeler's essay on how to test for a strong password is an interesting read. He notes that the following are also important factors in password security:
- Preventing online cracking with throttling or CAPTCHAs.
- Preventing offline cracking by selecting a suitably slow hash function with user-unique salts.
- Securing said password hashes.
https://phoenix-password-generator.fly.dev/
- Install dependencies with
mix deps.get - Install Node.js dependencies with
npm installinside theassetsdirectory - Start Phoenix endpoint with
mix phx.server
Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.
fly deploy
If you don't have the Fly.io CLI installed, see the next section for more information.
You will need to install flyctl in order to manually deploy to Fly.io.
After installing their CLI, use fly auth signup to sign up for an account with your GitHub credentials.
Run fly ssh issue --agent to setup SSH for Fly.io.
Deploy Command
fly deploy
SSH into Remote App IEx shell
fly ssh console -C "app/bin/stubs remote"
- Official website: https://www.phoenixframework.org/
- Guides: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html
- Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix
- Forum: https://elixirforum.com/c/phoenix-forum
- Source: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix