Notwithstanding this, it is a very good idea to save your own copy of this page. This password generator works using Javascript, entirely within the page, no data is ever passed back to my server. The Firefox password solution is rather limited because it will only work inside Firefox. If you are using Firefox with a password generator, you may wish to turn off the Firefox option to Suggest and Generate strong passwords.To navigate this page using the keyboard, use the TAB and RETURN keys.Most websites will send a password reset via email, so set the password for that email account to something completely different, just in case you ever forget the main password!.Using UPPER or lower case will produce different passwords, when using this for the first time it’s a good idea to use the 'Show Password' tickbox to check for any typos.Not all websites will accept 20 character passwords yet, though support is improving all the time, see also the 15 character version.For any website that's not on the list, just type the name into the 'Custom' box (the last one in the list) and press Generate.Using a different PC? you can re-generate the same set of passwords at any time by returning to this page and entering the same main password. Copy and paste the new password(s) into the website and set your web browser to remember them.Īll the websites get different passwords, but you only have to remember one!īecause the generator uses a one-way SHA-256 hash, knowing one password does not allow working backwards to discover the main password or any of the others. So, the idea is that you memorise just one, reasonably long, secure main password and use that to generate a set of non-dictionary passwords. Using the same password for multiple email, shopping and social networking websites is risky, it means that a security breach at one website will compromise all your accounts, possibly even leading to identity theft.

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