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With a command-line flag, users should be allowed to specify their own password structure - for example, two words followed by three numbers.

Instead of forcing users to run the program multiple times (either manually or with a bash for loop), a command-line flag should allow the user to specify how many passwords should be generated.

Most of my passwords are created in the browser. It would be really nice to have a browser extension available so I don't have to switch over to a terminal every time I want to generate a password.

The Rust WASM book will likely be a useful reference for getting started. Also, this extension for multiple browsers will probably be helpful for figuring out how browser extensions work.

With a command-line flag, users should be able to specify a custom wordlist to be loaded from the filesystem and used for password generation.

Since /dev/random/ can block if there isn't enough system entropy, users should be able to tell the program to seed from /dev/urandom with a command-line flag.

Additional targets should be added to the makefile for other build types. For example, there should be separate debugging and release builds, and there should be a build that statically links libraries for easier distribution.

A command-line option should be added to display entropy information about the selected password structure. Helpful statistics could include the bits of entropy, the number of possible passwords, and estimated hash cracking times for common password hashing algorithms.

An algorithm should be written to randomly replace a few characters in each word with letters or symbols. A command-line option should be provided to enable or disable character replacement, and specify how many letters in each word should be replaced.

Character replacement should take place with "leetspeek" mappings, such as substituting $ for the letter s.