brendanashworth / genpassword.c

Random password generating library, in C

Genpassword

Genpassword is a C library for generating unique passwords. Currently, the only available character pool for passwords is [a-zA-Z0-9].

char *generate_password(int length);

Important Note: It is necessary to seed your own random for security reasons. Never seed more than once, unless you know what you are doing!

Installation

Installation of this library is accomplished via CLib.

$ clib install boboman13/genpassword.c

This will give you a deps folder with the library.

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include "deps/genpassword.c/genpassword.c"

int main() {
	// This is where we seed.
	srand(time(NULL));

	int length = 10;
	char *password = generate_password(length);

	printf("%s\n", password);

	// We use malloc(), so you must free().
	free(password);
	return 0;
}

Performance

The library is quite fast. According to our benchmark...

$ make bench
$ ./bench

Ran on a Macbook Pro.

 -> Benchmarking genpassword...
 -> 3 runs, 100000 iterations each run, finished in 0.056893 seconds
 -> 5273068.32 i/sec