QRy - The command line TOTP generator

qry is an command line Time based OTP generator that can scan Google Authenticator QR codes and generate OTPs based on it. The TOTP is an implementation of the RFC4226 that describes HMAC based OTP. The time component is taken from the TOTP RFC, but currently it only supports HMAC-SHA1, the original OTP spec which also the most widely used.

$ python3 qry.py --help
usage: QRy - TOTP generator [-h] {reg,gen} ...

positional arguments:
  {reg,gen}   operations

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Registration help

$ python3 qry.py reg --help
usage: QRy - TOTP generator reg [-h] [-c R_CONFIG] [-f R_QRCODE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c R_CONFIG, --config R_CONFIG
  -f R_QRCODE, --qrcode R_QRCODE

Generation help

$ python3 qry.py gen --help
usage: QRy - TOTP generator gen [-h] [-c G_CONFIG]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c G_CONFIG, --config G_CONFIG

Requirements

This tool uses a command line tool called zbar which is a library used to process QR Codes. Setting up zbar is tedious in OSX devices, which is why using this to maintain cross compatibility.

To install zbar, you can use your favourite package manager and just do install zbar. eg: brew install zbar or apt-get install zbar

Python dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

• cryptography
• pyperclip

Usage

The flow is such.

$ cd <dir>
$ git clone https://github.com/prateeknischal/qry.git
$ cd qry

1. Register the QR Code

$ python3 qry.py reg --config /path/to/qry.json --qrcode /path/to/qrcode.png

This step will create a file called qry.json by default which contains your secret from the QR Code and is encrypted using a password which will be asked during registration.

2. Generate

$ python3 qry.py gen --config /path/to/qry.json

This step will prompt user for the password to decode the secret in the file qry.json. If the password is correct it will generate an OTP, copy in the clipboard and print it on the console. To make it more simple.

$ echo 'alias qry="python3 <dir>/qry/qry.py gen"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ source ~/.bash_profile
$ qry
Input password for the qry file:
Token copied to clipboard: xxxxxx

TODO

1. Proper error handling, messages to stderr and error code propagation
2. Caching the secret/password in memory for some time, user does not have to enter password at every attempt
3. Daemonize it, so that the above password caching works and you don't need to invoke the script at evert attempt