hash512

A tiny CLI utility for making SHA-512 password hashes.

Installation

• Manually: Check out the releases for downloads.

• Using go get:

  go get -u github.com/steven-xie/hash512

Usage

See ./hash512 --help for full usage documentation.

./hash512 -r <rounds> # rounds is related to hash security, defaults to 8192
## Input: The password to hash (x2, once for verification).
## Output: The resulting hash.

Motivation

I was generating password hashes for use with CoreOS Ignition, when I realized that the mkpasswd utility they suggested for making user account password hashes only available on a few Linux distributions. I wanted a better, cross-platform solution for making user password hashes that I could run on my macOS development machine, without the need for a Linux VM.

So I made one.