Password Generator XP 1.26

3.6 out of 5 stars 3.6 (5 votes)

(October 8, 2004)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 3,225 downloads

Password Generator XP allows to generate any quantity of passwords with one mouse click. Using this you do not have to think out new passwords. It will do it instead of you.

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  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    stisev

    Reviewing 1.26 (Mar 13, 2007)

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  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    httpd.confused

    Reviewing 1.26 (Aug 28, 2005)

    This is a halfway decent password generator. It can be used to generate 128-bit WEP keys, and provides good flexibility in general. If you want a password longer than 32 characters, though, you'll have to generate more than one, and concatenate them.

    Like almost all the other examples in this little software genre, Password Generator XP doesn't use a cryptographically-strong pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), but rather the PRNG of a standard programming library (in this case, C++).

    This doesn't mean it isn't safe or recommendable to use Password Generator XP. It is much preferable to use a good password made with an unsophisticated PRNG than a bad password made up in your own head. And the lack of a strong PRNG will not matter, generally speaking, if you are only using the passwords for individual web sites, or something like that--this concern would only really come into play if you were to generate many passwords, and use them in a predictable fashion (e.g. for network shares). No one is going to be able to discern a pattern from a one-off password.

    I'm still hoping for a password generator that uses a strong PRNG, and has a few good options like the ability to clear the clipboard after a period of time, and/or on program exit. I'm not holding my breath.

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