#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Copyright (c) 2015-2018 The Bitcoin Core developers # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php. import sys import os from random import SystemRandom import base64 import hmac def generate_salt(): # This uses os.urandom() underneath cryptogen = SystemRandom() # Create 16 byte hex salt salt_sequence = [cryptogen.randrange(256) for _ in range(16)] return ''.join([format(r, 'x') for r in salt_sequence]) def generate_password(): """Create 32 byte b64 password""" return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(os.urandom(32)).decode('utf-8') def password_to_hmac(salt, password): m = hmac.new(bytearray(salt, 'utf-8'), bytearray(password, 'utf-8'), 'SHA256') return m.hexdigest() def main(): if len(sys.argv) < 2: sys.stderr.write('Please include username (and an optional password, will generate one if not provided) as an argument.\n') sys.exit(0) username = sys.argv[1] salt = generate_salt() if len(sys.argv) > 2: password = sys.argv[2] else: password = generate_password() password_hmac = password_to_hmac(salt, password) print('String to be appended to bitcoin.conf:') print('rpcauth={0}:{1}${2}'.format(username, salt, password_hmac)) print('Your password:\n{0}'.format(password)) if __name__ == '__main__': main()