A Cocoa GUI for pwgen
Posted by Wietse Venema on 3 December 2009
Tag(s): Hobbyprojecten, Open Source, Desktop
Here at INFI we have a philosophy similar to Google’s 20 percent time. Employees are allowed to take a certain percentage of their time, during work hours, to work on anything we are passionate about. We use the time to build something new or learn about new cool technologies. Most things we learn we then share with our colleagues or on this blog. Last week, I took some time to learn Objective C 2.0 and get to know XCode and Cocoa. I created a Cocoa GUI for the popular utility pwgen.
On linux you have a nice command line utility called pwgen:
It generates passwords which are designed to be easily memorized by humans, while being as secure as possible. I use it a lot. There is a Windows GUI for pwgen but none for Mac OS X. So I downloaded the source of pwgen and created that GUI.
With all the web related work I usually do it was a nice experience to create a desktop application again. I really loved working with Interface Builder.
For the curious; I made the source of the GUI available under GPL. You can download it right here. You can download the binary below. Unzip it and put it in your Applications folder if you like it. Let me know what you think of it here in the comments.
