ipwqgen's Introduction

What is it?

ipwqgen is a password generator, frontend to the awesome passwdqc library. It combines randomly chosen dictionary words with special characters to generate passphrases that are relatively hard to crack and still possible to memorize.

Each time you generate a password it's copied to the clipboard, so you can paste it immediately. You can vary the strength of the generated passwords.

What does the application look like?

How do I build the application myself?

Get the IUP GUI library. You don't have to install it system-wide; if you're building it from source, just make sure you have all the prerequisites and type make in the src subdirectory.
Use Premake4 to generate the build files. Pass the location of IUP header and library files using --iup-inc and --iup-lib command line arguments.
Alternatively, use a one-liner like gcc -o ipwqgen --std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -I path/to/IUP/include -L path/to/IUP/lib -I passwdqc passwdqc/passwdqc_parse.c passwdqc/passwdqc_memzero.c passwdqc/passwdqc_random.c passwdqc/concat.c passwdqc/wordset_4k.c passwdqc/passwdqc_load.c gui/gui.c -liup, it should work.

Why is passwdqc source in there?

passwdqc library needs a few patches to work on Windows (if you just build it using MinGW, it would try to open /dev/urandom and fail). I modified passwdqc_random.c to use BCryptGenRandom (or CryptGenRandom on Windows XP) instead.

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