Ewert Technologies - Password Generator

This Password Generator tool can be used to create a strong and secure password, that can be used to protect your computer, online bank access, web site accounts, etc.

NOTE: this tool interacts with your system clipboard (so you can paste your generated password into other applications or web pages), and so you will see a security warning. Please click on Run, to use the tool.

Instructions for Use

Select the total number of characters that you want the password to be.
Select whether the password should only contain letters (Alpha), only contain numbers (Numeric) or contain both letters and numbers (Alpha Numeric).
If in step 2. you selected either Alpha or AlphaNumeric, select whether the letters should be Upper Case, Lower Case or Mixed Case.
Enter a special character, to be included in the password, or enter a blank if you don't want any special characters included. The following special characters can be used: !@#$%&*()+,-./:;<=>?[\]^_'"{|}~ Note: only use special characters that are supported by the system that you are generating the password for.
Click on the Generate button.
Click copy to copy the value to the clipboard.
Now that you have created a secure password, store it in PWMinder so you don't have remember it!

Password Guidelines

Do's

Use a password with at least 6 to 8 characters. The more characters in the password, the more combinations there are, making it more difficult to crack it. For example, if a password only uses upper case letters, a four character password would have approximately 450,000 combinations, if it had six characters there would be approximately 310,000,000 combinations, and if you were to use 8 characters, there would be approximately 210,000,000,000 combinations.
Use a combination of numbers and letters and use a mix of upper and lower case letters. This also increases the number of combinations. For example, if a password only uses upper case letters, a four character password would have approximately 450,000 combinations, if it used both upper and lower case letters there would be approximately 7,000,000 combinations, and if numbers were included as well, then there would be approximately 15,000,000 combinations.
Add a special character. This again increases the number of combinations, and reduces the risk of a dictionary attack.
Change your password every few months. This way, if your password has been cracked it will eventually be changed.
To create passwords that you can remember, use a phrase you can remember, and then take the first letter of each word, then append a number to it. For example, the phrase: This is a password phrase. could give you a password like Tiapp123.

Don'ts

Don't write your passwords down, or store them unencrypted on your computer, instead store them in a secure Password Manager like PWMinder.
Don't use a word or name that is personally associated with you, such as family member's name, birth month, city born in, etc.
Don't use common words. These are easily cracked using a dictionary attack, where hackers will attempt to find your password by trying all words from a common list in a dictionary.
Don't use the same password for all of your accounts and websites. If one of your passwords were to be cracked then the hacker would immediately know the password for all of your accounts and websites.

Try using PWMinder for storing and managing all of you passwords.

Support

If you find any problems with this tool, or have any suggestions, please go to the support page and fill in the form to send a support request.