Show HN: PW - Simple, secure & cross-platform password generator

[danpalmer]

Looks interesting, but I might be missing something here, what actually is it?

Why does it need the service and a password, isn't it generating a password? And how is it cross-platform, it looks like it's web based?

[simontabor]

Probably didn't make it clear enough, it's repeatable so you'd use Twitter as the service and whatever password you usually use (master password), it'd come back with a hash and you use that as your Twitter password. Whenever you need your Twitter password, you repeat the process.

https://github.com/simontabor/pw - it's got node-webkit so there's a mac app in that repo and should also work on Windows + Linux nicely (this is simply to take it out of the browser where it's easy to lose tabs and put it in a clean, small window)

[danpalmer]

> echo "service-password" | openssl sha

This is a quick alternative that should work on Mac OS and Linux, and Windows when openssl has been installed in a similar way.

[ugexe]

Making all the passwords the same length makes this essentially pointless.

[simontabor]

It's a repeatable SHA1 hash, what more do you want?