02 April 2009

Fresh passwords, every 5 seconds

Passwords should be secure. One way to archive this is by making them very long.

Most web applications I create, have a common workflow of sending a preconfigured password to a newly signed up user . To make it unguessable before the user changes it, this password is normally 40 characters long and contains only numbers and characters and no special characters. Some mail clients tend to do special stuff with the characters, remove some and the copy/pasted password is not working anymore.

Beeing a user myself I like to have these long passwords as login but most apps tend to send out either no password at all or send very short, memorizable passwords.

The short ones are good if you want to access your account from arround the world but most of the time I sit in front of the same computer and Keychain in Mac OS X (or any other app that stores and fills in password for you) does a pretty good job of remembering the long passwords for me.

So you need a password now. Want it long, copy/paste save and secure? Here you go: http://p.squidshot.com.

Passwords are refreshed every 5 seconds. So no excuse of using bad passwords anymore.

2 Kommentare:

Daan said...

hmm not sure if I want a password generated by a website which can track me..

Samuel Goebert said...

The passwords are generated on the client site. You can either wait a few seconds or download all components and run the site yourself.

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