Sunday, November 1, 2015

eToolkit - Open-source Client-side Password Generation, Hash & More

eToolkit is an online toolkit to perform common confidential tasks I use to do on a regular basis including Generating Random Passwords, Base64 decoding & encoding, Text Hashing using MD5/SHA-1/SHA-224/SHA-256/SHA-512 algorithms, Character Counting and things.
I admit there are various tools available online for the purpose and undoubtedly I have been using them. Even more, major functions of eToolkit are inspired if not powered by them. But I did not like the idea of submitting confidential content to a website or application which is not open for review.
For most random websites those they appear in google search, following concerns arise in my mind whenever I am using their services:
  • The password I am generating might be stored on their server
  • The text I am hashing might be saved in rainbow tables for reverse-lookups
  • I do not want to reload a page just to Base64 encode or decode a word. That feels creepy
For addressing all those concerns and try to solve the most, I made this tiny-little angular powered web-app that does all of those in your browser (doesn't send a thing to server) and open-sourced it here on Github because this how things I wanted these tools to be. Open!
To become useful, eToolkit is grateful to below open-source projects which power it:

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