Password Generators

These might be the most useless pages on this website -- at least compared to the effort it took to set them up :-)

Anyway: You'll find two password generators here, one to generate purely random passwords (like "Tmq.Qf?jxUa") and the other one to generate passwords based on wordlists (this one comes up with passwords like "31+shield=dumped"). And yes, those examples are static, no need to hit reload :-)

Purely random passwords are considered "more secure" ... yet they are pretty hard to remember for an average type of person (you might want to use them as pre-shared secrets, though).

Wordlist-based passwords might come in handy for quite a few cases: They combine half-decent security with an "err ... well, maybe I can memorize that" effect. And it's definetely better than choosing your dog's name again.

Both generators come with a handful of options to play around with. For those of you interested in the "myth and truth behind passwords" I strongly recommend The passphrase FAQ by Randall T. Williams, as it contains everything you ever wanted to know about passwords --- and perhaps even a little more.

And if you're really mad about your password security you should check out diceware -- those guys feature an interesting idea to generate random wordlist based passwords.

There are still some "action items": Next thing I'm going to add is a "calculator" to do some of the mathematics behind, just in case you need to know how the odds are that someone will guess the password you are about to create -- actually I've been pretty good at this .... way back then .... it's just that I don't really remember to much of that stochastics and combinatories. :-)

And now: Go create your passwords -- random or wordfile-based!