Use an open source app to generate new passwords

Dec 16, '09 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

pwgen is a popular Unix command line utility to generate passwords. Using that code, I created pwgen for Mac, which is a GUI front-end to pwgen.

The program generates passwords which are designed to be easily memorized by humans, while being as secure as possible, and it's open source. Features include no ambiguous characters (8/B), a full mix of capitals, numbers, and tokens, and lengths varying from eight to 32 characters.

[robg adds: There's also a built-in tool in OS X, too, available from the Accounts System Preferences panel. For browser-based password creation, 1Password is highly recommended.]

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