Do a large chunk of the move to go

This commit moves a huge chunk of the code to go. The TODO.md document
indicates what is left to be done.

internal/password/password.go

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+// Package password allows generating random passwords
+package password
+
+import (
+	"crypto/rand"
+	"math/big"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// NOTE(twiesing): A bunch of scripts cannot properly handle the extra characters in the password.
+// For now it is disabled, but it should be re-enabled later.
+const PasswordCharSet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789" // + "!@#$%&*"
+const PasswordCharCount = len(PasswordCharSet)
+
+// Password returns a randomly generated password with the provided length.
+// [rand.Reader] is used as the source of randomness.
+func Password(length int) (string, error) {
+	if length < 0 {
+		panic("length < 0")
+	}
+
+	var password strings.Builder
+	password.Grow(length)
+
+	for i := 0; i < length; i++ {
+
+		// grab a random index!
+		index, err := rand.Int(rand.Reader, big.NewInt(int64(PasswordCharCount)))
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		}
+
+		// and use that index!
+		if err := password.WriteByte(PasswordCharSet[int(index.Int64())]); err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		}
+	}
+
+	// return the password!
+	return password.String(), nil
+}