Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Long, high-quality random passwords for routers, VPNs, and your Mom's cookie recipe!

Steve Gibson provides the best password generator I have ever seen. If you need a unique, custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password string for
  • Your wireless router's WPA password
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN)
  • Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption
  • Your Mom's secret recipe file

I would recommend this as the place to go. If you need one that is shorter than 63 characters, you can truncate the string to the length you need.

https://www.grc.com/password

Caution, you may want to keep a copy of the password on a USB drive so you can copy and paste instead of even thinking about typing in one of these puppies.

Steve Gibson is well known for his "Spinrite" hard drive repair software and for his podcast with Leo Laporte: "Security Now".

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