#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Copyright (c) 2015-2017 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(salt): """Create 32 byte b64 password""" password = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(os.urandom(32)).decode('utf-8') m = hmac.new(bytearray(salt, 'utf-8'), bytearray(password, 'utf-8'), 'SHA256') password_hmac = m.hexdigest() return password, password_hmac def main(): if len(sys.argv) < 2: sys.stderr.write('Please include username as an argument.\n') sys.exit(0) username = sys.argv[1] salt = generate_salt() password, password_hmac = generate_password(salt) 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()