/keygn

🪄 A Command Line Tool To Make random keys with different lengths for your different purposes.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

keygn

🔥 The Ultimate CommandLine Tool for creating different type of keys instantly, to make your development faster.

🧐 Have you ever wanted to generate a secret key for your access tokens and resfresh tokens and etc? ✅ Well it would be a yes definetely.

Practices

At First glance you'd say: "Ok, I will find a hard and meaning-less sentence and hash it using MD5 (horrible) or SHA family and use it as a secret (or salt). but this is actually a bad security practice. ❌ Cause as you know all those senteces and words could be converted back to their readable way.

☹️ What should we do then?

Aha! here you are. Use keygn right into your cmd and generate a safe key for any kind of encoding and decoding things you want to do!

🚀 Installation

npm i -g keygn

🪄 Usage

keygn
  1. Answer the first question about the length. (e.g 64 would generate a 64 byte key). image

  2. Then Choose how your key should be given to you.
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  3. 👽 And Done! image

Tip: both questions have default values (64 for length adn Hexadecimal (hex) for key tyoe. So you can just press [Enter] and Chill 🦭

Sample Output:

YOUR KEY: 3ba15c658a6c9c659908cb6893d9761a26e0641af33a0cb396a13d9e7b928c626882d3b050575b027da0717c48c745d633a5dfe7d4523aeea89648b508d864f9 (✨ Copied to clipboard)

✨ The generated key is automatically copied to the clipboard.