Work with a collection of instruments for password creation and enhancement. Check out the options for creating different password types, including classic symbol combinations, as well as pattern-based passwords, and passphrases consisting of words from word lists.
PWGen is a very useful program that allows to generate random passwords avoiding using weak passwords and in this manner increasing the security of your password usage. You can generate a single password or generate a list of them (maximum 32,767). It has two options to generate passwords. The first one is "Include Characters" by selecting the length of the password and the type of characters that will be included, they can be letters, numbers, symbols, hexadecimal, etc. The second option, "Include Words", allows you to generate passphrases by opening a word list file, you can select the number of phrases to include and combine words with characters. After generating a password you can see the result and the security level utilized, e.g. 52 bits, 117 bits. At the bottom of the main window the random pool activity and entropy bits are shown. You can also customize the way passwords are generated, e.g., exclude ambiguous characters, include upper/lower case letters, etc. The program works under Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista.
v2.7.0.1 [Jan 2, 2016]
In version 2.7.0, most windows (including the main window of the program) can now be changed in size, and new options “Always on top”, which makes PWGen and its subordinate windows the top-most windows on the screen, as well as “Provide additional entropy / From file”, which allows incorporating entropy from any file into the random pool, have been added to the main menu. Besides, the “Quick help” window has been redesigned in order to enable copying text and scrolling with the mouse wheel. PWGen provides lots of options to customize passwords to the users’ various needs. Additionally, it offers strong text encryption and the creation of random data files.
