abbrase | password generation based on abbreviating phrases

abbrase is a C library. abbrase has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However abbrase has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

Abbrase is an abbreviated passphrase generator. An abbrase is one of the passwords it produces. It generates a password and a phrase like "phyeigdolrejutt" and "physical eight dollars rejected utterly". Try the web version. Creating secure passwords is easy. Remembering them is hard. Pwgen makes them memorable though prounouncability. XKCD suggests using a series of random common words, but memorizing series of unrelated words can be difficult, and typing long phrases can be tedious. Abbrase is an experiment in generating probable phrases using markov chains, and abbreviating each word to the first few letters. This strikes a balance between excessive password length and excessive mnemonic length. Passwords generated by Abbrase are as secure as a number with the same length. "122079103" and "toldulbal" (tolerably dull ball) are equally hard to attack. The wordlist and bigram graph are generated with data from Google NGrams dataset, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.