RISTSRPPASSWD(1)

💖 RISTSRPPASSWD 💖

okay bestie, you're looking at the ristsrppasswd page from section 1 (User Commands) — yes, the one and only. sit down, grab a 🍓, we're doing password hashes.

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✨ NAME ✨

ristsrppasswd — generate passwords for authenticating RIST streams 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ristsrppasswd [username] [password]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so first things first: RIST is the Reliable Internet Stream Transport, and it's a transport protocol built for sending video reliably over lossy networks (yes, including the whole entire Internet 🌈) with low latency and high quality. it's giving main character energy in the streaming world, no cap.

and ristsrppasswd? it generates an SHA256 password hash that you use for authenticating RIST streams. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic. 💅

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• username — the name of the authenticating user. who are you, bestie? 👑
• password — the plaintext password for the authenticating user. yep, plaintext going in, hash coming out. that's the vibe check. 🔥

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• ristsender(1)
• ristreceiver(1)
• https://code.videolan.org/rist/librist/-/wikis/LibRIST%20Documentation

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

this manual page was written by Florian Ernst <florian@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). ty for your service, fr fr. 💜

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and that's a wrap! this was ristsrppasswd version 0.2.13, dated April 2026 — go forth and authenticate your streams, bestie. slay. ✨🦋💖