PWGen 2.8.0.1

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.

v2.8.0.1 [Apr 27, 2016]
- Added drag & drop support for the password boxes in the main window and in the "MP assword Generator" dialog, as well as for password lists: a drag & drop operation can be started by left-clicking on the password security bar below the password box and holding the mouse button; in the password list window, text can be directly dragged from the password list itself; the password(s) (or a selection thereof) may be dropped to any application registered as a drop target; conversely, the password boxes can act as drop targets and receive text from other applications
- New option "Position Automatically" in the "Quick Help" window (available in the context menu of the text box): if activated, the window is positioned below the "Quick Help (?)" button whenever it is made visible (this used to be the default setting); otherwise, the window position will not be changed, and will be saved in the configuration .ini file.