#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Copyright (c) 2015-2016 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 hashlib import sys import os from random import SystemRandom import base64 import hmac if len(sys.argv) < 2: sys.stderr.write('Please include username as an argument.\n') sys.exit(0) username = sys.argv[1] #This uses os.urandom() underneath cryptogen = SystemRandom() #Create 16 byte hex salt salt_sequence = [cryptogen.randrange(256) for i in range(16)] hexseq = list(map(hex, salt_sequence)) salt = "".join([x[2:] for x in hexseq]) #Create 32 byte b64 password password = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(os.urandom(32)) digestmod = hashlib.sha256 if sys.version_info.major >= 3: password = password.decode('utf-8') digestmod = 'SHA256' m = hmac.new(bytearray(salt, 'utf-8'), bytearray(password, 'utf-8'), digestmod) result = m.hexdigest() print("String to be appended to bitcoin.conf:") print("rpcauth="+username+":"+salt+"$"+result) print("Your password:\n"+password)