derivepassphrase

An almost faithful Python reimplementation of James Coglan's vault, a deterministic password manager/generator.

Using a master passphrase or a master SSH key, derive a passphrase for a given named service, subject to length, character and character repetition constraints. The derivation is cryptographically strong, meaning that even if a single passphrase is compromised, guessing the master passphrase or a different service's passphrase is computationally infeasible. The derivation is also deterministic, given the same inputs, thus the resulting passphrase need not be stored explicitly. The service name and constraints themselves also need not be kept secret; the latter are usually stored in a world-readable file.

Installation

With pip

(If not inside a virtual environment, use pip install --user instead of plain pip install.)

$ pip install derivepassphrase

To use the export subcommand, install the export extra:

$ pip install "derivepassphrase[export]"

Manually

derivepassphrase is a pure Python package, and may be easily installed manually by placing the respective files and the package's dependencies into Python's import path. derivepassphrase requires Python 3.10 or higher as well as the typing-extensions package for its core functionality and programmatic interface, and click 8.1 or higher for its command-line interface. Using the export vault subcommand additionally requires the cryptography package, version 38.0 or newer.

Quick Usage

$ derivepassphrase vault -p --length 30 --upper 3 --lower 1 --number 2 --space 0 --symbol 0 my-email-account
Passphrase: This passphrase is for demonstration purposes only.
JKeet7GeBpxysOgdCEJo6UzmP8A0Ih

Some time later…

$ derivepassphrase vault -p --length 30 --upper 3 --lower 1 --number 2 --space 0 --symbol 0 my-email-account
Passphrase: This passphrase is for demonstration purposes only.
JKeet7GeBpxysOgdCEJo6UzmP8A0Ih

(The user input This passphrase is for demonstration purposes only. for the passphrase prompt is not actually displayed on-screen.)

License

derivepassphrase is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.