If I can recall the normal English words, hyphens and line breaks that mnencode gave me, I can translate it back as a matter of course. No longer do I need to remember a string of 12 characters or letters. > jargon-contact-ninja-airline" | mndecode See where this is going yet? ~$ echo "nova-figure-peru-george-side-ninja Of course, that’s the purpose of having such an obtuse password.īut here’s what mnemonicode can do, with its mnencode and mndecode tools: ~$ echo TxFX0rxNFkVN | mnencode (But they are fairly time-consuming to force.) Unless the password actually has some intrinsic meaning to it, which mine don’t, it can be a challenge. What’s so great about it? Well, if you’re like me, and your passwords are just 12-digit strings of random letters and numbers, they can get a little clunky to remember. But I’m really glad I found it, and that Stephen Paul Weber uploaded it there. Mnemonicode is not a new tool in fact, the GitHub repo I linked to is just a six-year-old (?) mirror of the original, which is apparently no longer online (but is archived, thank goodness). I remember adding it to the list a long while back and thinking, “That is really cool.” I’ve been waiting quite a while to see mnemonicode pop up in the rotation.
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