Showing posts with label strong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strong. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
PWGen Generator of cryptographically strong passwords
PWGen Generator of cryptographically strong passwords
PWGen is a professional password generator capable of creating large amounts of cryptographically-secure passwords or passphrases consisting of words from a word list. It uses a “random pool” technique to generate random data based on user inputs (keystrokes, mouse handling) and volatile system parameters. PWGen provides lots of options to customize passwords to the users’ various needs. Additionally, it offers strong text encryption and the creation of random data files (e.g., key files).
Notable Features
- Free and Open-Source software
- Unicode support
- Unobtrusive: easy to use, doesn’t install any weird DLL files, doesn’t write to the Windows registry, doesn’t even write to your hard disk if you don’t want it, can be uninstalled easily
- Uses up-to-date cryptography (AES, SHA-2) to generate random data for high-quality passwords
- Numerous password options for various purposes
- Generation of large amounts of passwords at once
- Generation of passphrases composed of words from a word list
- Pattern-based password generation (formatted passwords) provides nearly endless possibilities to customize passwords to the user’s needs
- “Password hasher” functionality: Generate passwords based on a master password and a parameter string (e.g., the name of a website), similar to “Hashapass”
- Secure text encryption
- Multilingual support
- In-depth manual (49 pages)
- Runs on all Windows versions (32-bit and 64-bit; beginning with Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2)
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Saturday, March 25, 2017
Passera Tool to generate strong unique passwords for each website
Passera Tool to generate strong unique passwords for each website
A simple tool that allows users to have strong unique passwords for each website, without the need to store them either locally or with an online service. It is available as a command-line tool for Linux/Mac/Windows and an Android app.
Passera turns any entered text into a strong password up to 64 characters long and copies it to clipboard. Figure out a decent system for yourself that will allow unique passphrases for every website, such as combining website name/URL with a phrase that you would not forget. To login, fire up Passera and enter the passphrase you chose and your real password will be copied to clipboard.
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githubPasswd123dpu7{Lrby(vQLd8mThis software is for privacy-aware people who understand the need to have strong unique passwords for each website, yet dont want to use any password managing software or services. Relying on password managing software means trusting your passwords to be kept safe by a third-party company, or trusting them to a single file on your disk.
To make it somewhat more conspicuous, when you start Passera it copies a random password to clipboard. The real password is then only stored in clipboard for 10 seconds, before being overwritten by another random string.
Password security considerations
Passera is not designed to produce a hash of a given string by reinventing the wheel of cryptography. Instead, it produces a unique string of specified length, suitable for usage as a strong password. The cryptographic methods used are ensuring that the produced passwords are as "random" as possible, and are absolutely impossible to trace back to original passphrases.
Passwords, produced by Passera are impossible to brute-force, since it would take an extremely long time (as opposed to using combinations of real words and sentences as passwords). If a password gets leaked from a compromised website, an attacker would not be able to determine any of your other passwords. And if the attacker is aware that Passera has been used to create the password, brute-forcing with intent to find out the original passphrase would also take an extremely long time.
Passera does not ask for a website URL or a "master password" when generating a password, because these values would be included into the hashing algorithm in a particular way, potentially known to an attacker. Instead, users have the freedom to combine anything in any order, shape or form in the initial passphrase, making it exponentially more difficult to brute-force, to the point of being impossible.
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