There are some IT professionals who, I feel, had their brains replaced by random key generators; they could come up with some of the most cryptic passwords ever and make sure they adhere to the insane IT password guidelines at the same time!
For most “normal” people we need random key generators.
I think I’ve found the best one on the web…
Enter RandomKeyGen.com!
I like it because it’s super simple, plain, and no advertisements. Bookmark this!
[HT: NewsFTW]
Ben Miller says
Nice. I’ve been using the SecurePassword Generator Firefox plugin.
John Saddington says
oh sweet.
Ted Carnahan says
I think I’d give this one a pass. The “Decent Passwords” section is pretty reasonable, but beyond that is getting mighty insane. For web hosts, in most circumstances one should be using public key auth over SSH and disabling password access altogether, and almost everyone has “sudo” or whatever the Mac or Windows equivalent is configured, so setting Admin/root passwords is a bit irrelevant.
Besides, for these forgettably long passwords (okay, maybe you 8bit guys are superhuman, but the rest of us) you’re going to use a password manager, and that’s going to need to be guarded by something you can remember and type in regularly. Hopefully that password manager will generate a decent password for you.
John Saddington says
we are normal people who blog in their underpants with too much caffeine coursing through their veins…….
Ted Carnahan says
I prefer bathrobe blogging, personally. But either way, nobody really wants to see that.