keygn v1.0.5
keygn
:fire: The Ultimate CommandLine Tool for creating different type of keys instantly, to make your development faster.
š§ Have you ever wanted to generate a secret key for your access tokens and resfresh tokens and etc? ā 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. ā Cause as you know all those senteces and words could be converted back to their readable way.
ā¹ļø 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!
š Installation
npm i -g keygn
šŖ Usage
keygn
Answer the first question about the length. (e.g
64
would generate a 64 byte key).Then Choose how your key should be given to you.
š½ And Done!
Tip: both questions have default values (64 for length adn Hexadecimal (hex) for key tyoe. So you can just press Enter and Chill š¦
Sample Output:
YOUR KEY: 3ba15c658a6c9c659908cb6893d9761a26e0641af33a0cb396a13d9e7b928c626882d3b050575b027da0717c48c745d633a5dfe7d4523aeea89648b508d864f9 (āØ Copied to clipboard)
āØ The generated key is automatically copied to the clipboard.