Random Password Generator 2014 is much more than just a password generator - it's a professional software for generating unique & secure random passwords / keycodes / numbers / serial numbers / usernames / any other short pieces of random "text" (to reflect this fact, the word "password" on this website refers to a wide variety of strings that this product can generate, and not just to passwords per se). Building on over 7 years of experience (previously the product was made by Diplodock), Password Generator 2014 offers the most advanced set of features available in any random code generation application!
These are just a few things you can do with random Password Generator 2014:
Random Password Generator 2014 can easily produce very sophisticated passwords and keycodes that match even the strictest requirements and policies!
Below you will find just a very few examples of the kinds of codes the program can generate. These are just a few sample cases, to let you understand how flexible the product can be!
| Description | Sample |
|---|---|
| A password of length 8 to 11 characters, that contains lower case, upper case, and numeric characters with 10:10:5 ratio, excluding capital letter B, and it should not start with a number. | Kw4YtnW3Pz |
| A keycode 25 to 30 characters long, consisting of only upper case and numeric characters, excluding letters X and N, with the first 5 characters generated sequentially starting from 00001 and presented in hexadecimal format, separated by a dash every 5 characters until 20th character. 11th keycode would look like: | 0000B-9UHO6-0EMY5-LS9TR-Q445PMG8 |
| A strong password of length 10 with no duplicate (AbA), repeating (AAb), or consecutive (qwe,abc) characters, and containing at least 1 punctuation character. | p5l1v;DJE3 |
| Pronounceable password 12 characters long, containing double vowels (oo), but no double consonants (ll), and one numeric character at the end. | rasopafeese8 |
| A username of the form random Random Adjective, followed by underscore character, followed by First Name, followed by 3 random numbers, followed by @domain. | Fine_Alexander323@domain |
| Random number in hexadecimal format between 25 and 250 000. | 83A2 |
The diagram below shows product's key elements and workflow:
See Password Generator 2014 in action, discover its powerful features, and learn how to use them by watching video demonstrations below! Some demos showcase 2010 version of the product, however everything shown there still applies to the latest version as well!
This is a brief screenshots tour of a product. It highlights some of the major product features. For more detailed information on product features, please see video demonstrations and check product features section.
This section provides an extensive overview of product features. Hover your mouse over a feature to learn more about it.
This product lets you generate millions of passwords and usernames in a matter of minutes. The precise speed and the number of passwords that can be generated depend on the available memory and processor speed. We guarantee ability to generate at least 50 000 000 passwords, provided there is enough memory (each password requires 2 x n + 4 bytes of storage, where n is the number of characters in a password, and 2 bytes per character are due to passwords being in Unicode).
The product can generate passwords, directly writing them to a file on disk, completely bypassing User Interface. This will not only result in considerable speed up and save system resources, but will allow you to generate truly large number of passwords, in excess of tens of millions!
The product offers 5 different generation modes, each with different options and functionality. The kind of passwords / keycodes you want to generate will influence the generation mode you select.
If all you want is just quickly generate strong passwords, without having to go through many options, Basic Generation Mode is there for you. It lets you specify the length, turn on or off lower case characters, upper case character, numerals, special characters, as well as enable or disable character policies (see below).
Advanced mode is similar to Basic Mode, except it has far more options. It allows you to control precisely what characters you want to see in your passwords and what characters you do not want to see appearing. In addition, you can control how often a particular character or group of characters will appear, as well as where (roughly) it will be placed – at the beginning, in the middle, at the end, or somewhere randomly.
Sample case would be: password that contains lower case, upper case, and numeric characters with 10:10:5 ratio, excluding Capital letter B, and it should not start with a number.
Masking Mode is different from the previous two modes in a number of ways. First and foremost, it gives you complete control over character placement. It can still be random, of course, but you can precisely control the boundaries of this randomness.
In addition, it allows you to use more sophisticated 'building blocks' in your passwords: words or items from external files / databases, and sequential numbers – parts that are automatically incremented with every new password generated.
On top of that, masking mode has several 'operators' that give you even more flexibility. For example, random distribution operator (...) can be used if you want to randomly distribute building blocks (be it characters, words, or sequences) in certain part of the mask.
Pronounceable Mode makes it super easy to generate passwords that are easy to pronounce. It too has several unique options. For instance, you can enable usage of double vowels and consonants, so that passwords like 'umbrella' would be possible.
Number Generation Mode allows you to generate random numbers (whole, negative, floating point) in mathematical sense of a word. You can specify number range within which the generated numbers should fall. You can also have the generated numbers match a given statistical distribution like Normal, Geometric, or Uniform (there are 17 built-in distributions - both discrete and continuous).
You can generate random numbers within a specified range or matching a given distribution.
You can generate random numbers that will form a given statistical distribution.
The following continuous distributions are supported: Normal / Gaussian, Beta, Chi Square, Student-T, Cauchy, Chi, Continuous Uniform, Exponential, Gamma, Laplace, Log-Normal, Pareto
The following discrete distributions are supported: Bernoulli, Binomial, Discrete Uniform, Geometric, Poisson
Generate whole or fractional random numbers within specified range. You can set the lower bound to be less than zero to generate negative numbers.
You can specify the format of the generated random numbers, including its base (radix). You can specify any base between 2 and 36, including binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal.
Other formatting options include leading zero character selection, minimum length in digits.
Character Groups are distinct collections of characters grouped together for convenience. They make it easy to control password composition and character placement. For example, if you place a lower case character group placeholder in a mask, you can precisely control where lower case character(s) should appear. What's more is that you can easily remove and add characters from a character group. That way you can exclude unwanted characters with a single click!
There are 4 built-in basic character groups, 4 built-in phonetic character groups, and you can define up to 9 custom character groups - each with arbitrary set of characters, including non-ASCII characters!
There are 4 Basic Character Groups: lower case, upper case, numeric, and special (punctuation and others).
There are 4 Phonetic Character Groups: vowels, consonants, double vowels, and double consonants. These character groups are mainly used by the Pronounceable Generation Mode, but you are free to use them in Advanced and Masking Mode as well, though the last two phonetic character groups would be hardly useful in modes other than Pronounceable.
You can create up to 9 custom character groups. Each custom character group can contain an arbitrary set of characters, including non-ASCII, Unicode characters. Custom character groups allow you to create groups of characters that make sense to you and help you accomplish your goals.
Masks can be thought of as blueprints for the passwords / codes you want to generate. While the masks are used by only 2 generation modes – Advanced and Masking, they are extremely useful.
In Advanced Generation Mode only simple masks are allowed, though you still can accomplish quite a lot with them. For example, (lun)sn is a perfectly valid mask for Advanced Mode. In this case it means that the first part of a password will consist of upper case, lower case, and numeric characters intermixed with each other, followed by special (punctuation and miscellaneous) characters, followed by numeric characters. In the Advanced Mode, the precise number of characters for each character type is determined by the appropriate character's group Density property and the passwords overall length.
In Masking Mode, the masks can be much more sophisticated, as they can contain operators, sequences, words, literals, and even data taken from outside sources. A thing to note is that in the Masking Mode, in contrast with Advanced Mode, a character group placeholder always corresponds to a single character from that group (whereas in Advanced Mode character group placeholder may correspond to more than one character from that group - see above).
Masks, and ultimately the passwords which they correspond to, can be though to consist of distinct building blocks, or resources, and operators that manipulate these resources. There are several kinds of resources that masks can contain:
This wide variety of building bocks gives you an idea of how flexible the program is.
In addition to resources, masks can have operators that manipulate those resources. Here are some of the masking operators:
But that’s not all – operators can be nested in one another, which gives you truly infinite possibilities.
With such advanced masking capabilities, support for multiple sequences in a single mask, and ability to insert external data from databases into your keycodes, you can easily create all kinds of keycodes for all your needs: be it generating unique lottery ticket numbers, pin codes, serial numbers, or anything else!
You can use words or other textual items in your passwords! These items can be taken from any of the 4 built-in Dictionaries, your own Dictionary (practically an external text file), or even from a Database.
In addition you can control which items are to be taken with various filters, and how they are supposed to be manipulated using letter-case masks, and other tools. And what's more - you can have several such textual items in your password!
There are 4 built-in dictionaries (collections of 'words') in the program: Default (nouns, adjectives, verbs), Given Names, Family Names, and Movie Characters - overall totaling at around 90 000 words.
You can also use words taken from external textual files in your passwords. These external textual files are regarded as user-defined dictionaries by the program, where each line is treated as a word. All the settings that you can apply to built-in dictionaries are applicable for user-defined dictionaries as well. For instance, before a word is inserted, it can be capitalized, first few letters removed, tuned into uppercase, etc.
You can use data from any ODBC-compliant database (SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, MySQL, etc.) in your passwords. It works by adding a special kind of user-defined dictionary, where source of data is a database, and words are items returned by the SELECT SQL query that you specify.
Sequences are quite far from being random. Essentially they are elements that you can use in masks, whenever you want the codes you are generating to have incrementally adjusted and formatted parts. For example, you may want to generate 10 000 codes, where first 5 characters should be in the form 00001 through 10000, i.e. this part should be incremented by 1 starting from 00001 and formatted with all leading zeroes included. Sequences allow for exactly such a thing!
But sequences need not be decimal. They can be binary, hexadecimal, alphanumeric, or in fact of any base up to base 36. In addition, you can specify starting value, increment amount (positive to advance, negative to decrement), maximum and minimum value, and other settings. You can define up to 9 custom sequences.
Also note that sequences are a nice way to make sure that all generated passwords / codes are unique (but there is a special uniqueness setting as well).
Various built-in transforms can be applied to generated passwords as the last step in the generation process or even to the already generated passwords. Transforms allow you to further fine-tune the passwords being generated, enabling you to add, replace, or remove strings of text; affect the casing or order of characters; convert generated strings to Morse code, Leet Speak, Base-64; generate hashes, and get character codes; and perform other manipulations.
You can apply multiple transforms in a sequential manner. You can also specify exactly which characters in the original string should be affected (you can set the starting and ending characters and / or set RegEx pattern that should match only specific characters). You can specify how the transformed string should be merged with the original: you can set it to overwrite original, overwrite affected characters only, insert before or after the original.
There are different transforms that allow you to replace specific characters and text strings in the generated passwords. You can also insert or append new string literals; or even remove certain unwanted strings.
You can convert applicable characters in the generated strings to their Morse Code equivalents.
You can convert applicable characters in the generated strings to their Leet Speak equivalents.
You can encode generated passwords in base 64.
Provided that the generated string is a number, you can convert its base (radix) to any other base between 2 and 36.
You can perform various manipulations on individual characters like changing letter case. In addition you can reverse, shift by a certain amount, or randomize the order of characters.
You can compute hashes of generated strings in the specified encoding and using specified hashing algorithm: SHA1, SHA2, MD5, RIPE-MD, CRC.
There are many other transformations that you can perform, including getting Unicode character codes, byte codes, performing HTML & URL encode / decode operations.
Character Policies are special options that you can turn on and off (and tweak a little) that make sure certain conditions and requirements are met for the passwords being generated. For example, your policy may be that you allow no more than 2 consecutive characters in your passwords, so that abedgh is allowed, but not abcefg; or maybe you are not allowing repeating characters like the letter s in the word password. In all these cases, character policies help you ensure that all these restrictions are followed.
A Repeating Character policy, when activated, makes sure that no more than the specified number of repeating characters appears (1 by default, which means no repeating characters are allowed).
So for example, the word password will not be allowed, as the letter s is repeated.
You can also specify whether or not to treat lower case and upper case variants of the same letter as being the same.
A Duplicate Character policy, when activated, makes sure that no more than the specified number of duplicate characters appears (1 by default, which means no duplicate characters are allowed).
This is actually a superset of Repeating Character Policy case; because here we do not allow characters to appear more than the specified number of times regardless of where they are in a password (they need not be next to one another, as in the Repeating Character Policy, for this policy to be triggered). So, if this policy is enabled, then the Repeating Character Policy is practically ignored.
So for example, the word password will not be allowed just as the word suspend, as the letter s appears more than once.
You can also specify whether or not to treat lower case and upper case variants of the same letter as being the same.
A Consecutive Character policy, when activated, makes sure that no more than the specified number of consecutive characters appears (1 by default, which means no consecutive characters are allowed).
Consecutive characters are those that appear next to each other and form a sequence. In that regard, there are 2 versions of this policy: one for logical consecutive characters like abc, or 123, and one for keyboard consecutive characters like qwerty.
So for example, the word about will not be allowed, as the letters a and b form a forbidden sequence.
You can also specify whether or not to treat lower case and upper case variants of the same letter as being the same.
A Similar Character policy, when activated, makes sure that no predefined similar characters can appear in a password at all. This is usually applied to 0oO1iIl characters.
How does the program generate random passwords? That is where does the randomness come from?
At the core of the generation process is the Random Number Generator (RNG), which creates randomness that the program then uses to make random choices, such as character selection and placement.
The product comes with 5 different internal random number generators that you can choose from. In choosing an RNG there is usually an associated tradeoff between the speed and randomness (which implies security, as more random = better security): the better randomness RNG generates, the slower it is.
The fastest RNG is XOR-Shift 128, which is a xorshift pseudo-random number generator with period 2^128-1. The most secure RNG, and the one which generates the best randomness, is the FIPS-140 compliant Cryptographically Secure RNG. The other 3 RNGs are: Mersenne Twister pseudo-random number generator with period 2^19937-1; Additive Lagged Fibonacci pseudo-random number generator that uses the modulus 232, and by default the 'lags' 418 and 1279; and the one provided by the system.
You can to an extent control RNGs by setting the value for the initial random seed.
You can generate FIPS-140 (Federal Information Processing Standard) compliant passwords and keycodes by utilizing program's Cryptographically Secure RNG that generates the best, standards-compliant 'randomness'.
You can generate usernames along with passwords, much the same way as you generate passwords. Usernames are generated according to a specified mask. You can then export generated usernames along with passwords to a database, or use them to update existing passwords in a database.
The product lets you generate truly unique passwords. That is the program can make sure that all generated passwords will be different.
There are two ways in which this can be accomplished. Number one: the program simply makes sure there are no duplicate passwords as it is generating them. Number two: the program can search for and remove duplicate passwords from the ones already in the list. The latter option is useful if you are generating passwords in several stages, or if you imported some date into the password list.
Your passwords can contain non-ASCII characters, as the program has full support for Unicode. In fact, as you define your own character groups, you can easily add non-ASCII characters into them. In fact, you can generate passwords and usernames with no Latin letters at all, but with say Cyrillic letters. This gives you full flexibility.
The generated passwords and usernames can be easily exported into XML document, CSV or TXT file, or HTML web page.
UI similar to Office 2010 with detailed tool tips puts all the important controls at your fingertips, improving ease of use.
The program comes with good built-in and external help. When you start the program, an optional Tip of the Day is shown that provides insight into some of the program's features. Within the program there are numerous tooltips that clearly explain what a particular control does. And of course, there is detailed help that clearly explains all aspects of the program – from concepts such as Character Groups and Masks, to User Interface elements.
The product can involve a lot of customization. For example you may want to customize character groups by including or excluding certain characters, or want to customize sequences. In addition, you may want to have several different presets of these customizations. You can do precisely that, as the program lets you easily save all your customizations to a particular area into a separate file that you can reuse later (this is in addition, of course, to the program automatically remembering all settings upon exit).
Most of the settings in the program are accessible through what's called property grids that feature various drop-down controls that make it very easy to tweak different settings.
The program comes with full printing support, including page setup and print preview.
The program lets you perform Search and Replace operations within the list of generated passwords and usernames. There is also an option to use Regular Expressions if you want.
When you start the program, an optional Getting Started Screen welcomes you and presents you with several common choices of what to do next (generating new passwords, opening existing password lists, etc.), making it easy for you to get started quickly.
The program has numerous options that control various aspects of its behavior.
Full clipboard support is included. You can copy and cut various parts of the password list, and then paste them into other places in the same password list, into a different password list, or into a different program altogether - like Microsoft Excel for example.
You can perform various list-related operations with a list of generated passwords. You can sort either the whole list or just the selected part, you can shuffle items in the list, or you can copy/move selected items from one list into a different list - all with a click of a button!
The program continually checks for updates and notifies you when updates are available.
The program offers the ability to automatically filter-out unwanted weak common passwords, such as 2welcome or a1b2c3d4. This way it makes sure that no such passwords will be present in the list, even if the chance of them being randomly generated is very small. This significantly improves the security.
This Weak Password Filter is implemented by the program comparing every generated password to a predefined list of common passwords. In addition, with the help of Custom Filter, you may create your own lists of words, passwords, and textual items that you want the generated passwords to be checked against.
The program lets you generate not just passwords, keycodes, and usernames, but also their hashes, that you can later save or export. The supported hash formats include: SHA2 (512, 384, and 256 bits), SHA1 (160 bits), and MD5 (128 bits), RIPE-MD (160 bits), CRC (16 & 32 bits).
You can save the generated passwords in an encrypted XML file, protecting it with a password of your choice.
The product lets you export generated passwords and/or usernames to any ODBC-compliant database, including SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, MySQL, etc.
There are 2 modes of export: you can insert new records into the table and columns of your choice or you can update existing records with the values generated by the program.
The product can export directly to Microsoft Excel by creating a workbook and populating the first sheet with generated passwords (and usernames).
One of the common tasks of IT security professional is to make sure that personal data of all employees in an organization is safe and secure. Part of this is making sure that all user passwords are strong and are changed on a regular basis.
While changing the passwords may not be so difficult, notifying users about the changes could be a bit of a hassle. This is where program's User Notification Wizard can help. It works by automatically e-mailing users their new passwords, thus saving you a lot of time!
Server Edition of the product, which is available on request, comes with a command-line version of the password generator that offers virtually all features of the main application in a command line format, so that it can be easily automated and scheduled to run on a regular basis.
Developer Edition of the product, which is available on request, comes with an API for all password generation features in the form of a signed .NET 2.0 DLL library and detailed documentation. If you need to tightly integrate our password generator with your business logic, or want to use its password generation capabilities in your applications, then Developer Edition is for you!
Learn about the new features introduced in version 2014. Move a mouse over a feature to learn more!
Learn about the new features introduced in version 2010. Move a mouse over a feature to learn more!
Some information on this page may pertain to older versions of the product. Yet the current version has even more features!
Password Generator 2013 Professional is capable of generating unlimited passwords according to your specifications. In fact, this tool can build any kind of random strings you may need, such as usernames, passwords, ID numbers, key codes, etc. The program can generate strings of up to 100 characters and a list of 100,000,000 strings at once, but this will depend on the kind of license you acquire.
Password Generator 2013 Professional offers a nice user interface, in the style of Office 2010. It includes a command ribbon and several panels for you to select all your settings. Besides, you can work in several modes – Basic, Advanced, Pronounceable, Mask, and Number. All these features offer you a really large number of options and parameters for you to tweak. Therefore, it would advise you to start by reading the "Getting Started" section of the help file, in order to make the most of the program's capabilities. [+]
These days for each and everything we need security whether it’s your bank account, email ID, files, folder, etc. With this comes the need to have a large variety of passwords that ideally should be different and unique. So to solve this problem we are presenting you the Password Generator 2008 Professional. It provides you with millions of passwords, key codes, serial numbers, pronounceable passwords, and usernames that are strictly generated following the rules that you define. You can also enable various other features to work with and you would find the program easy to deal with. [+]
The product works great with the needs of creating truly random passwords with features like filtering out certain characters (l or 0).
- John Romero, Idaho Department of Education, USA
Password Generator is the best password generator I had ever used. I'm more than satisfied with the set of features it offers. It is very customizable and easy to use, and is well worth the money I paid!
- Aaron Carroll, Canada
Password Generator is an awesome tool! I regularly need to create complex passwords. Before I got Password Generator, it used to take me hours to do that, as I had to fiddle with different tools! Password Generator now makes my life a lot easier - it simply gives me the passwords I want fast!
- Jeff Jones, USA
We are very pleased with Password Generator. As a healthcare software vendor classified as a HIPAA Business Associate ("BA"), our company is governed by U.S. Federal law of privacy under the 1996 HIPAA Federal Statutes.
We use Password Generator for generating "hard" usernames and "hard" passwords for our secure FTP services which are also regulated by HIPAA compliancy statutes. We also use Password Generator for generating "hard" passwords for each of our network computer logins. [+]
- James Carlburg, Pres. Software Motif Inc., USA
I spent some time trying various other password generation utilities, but Password Generator Professional was by far the easiest and most advanced. I also have to mention the Customer Service which was both prompt and efficient.
- James Robson, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, UK
Password Generator enabled me to update my customers' passwords in my company database quickly, securing their private data from hackers. I was very happy with the results.
- Kelly Wang, Taiwan
I purchased Password Generator Professional and I am very happy with it. It generates passwords the way I want, and does so quickly! For professionals, it is the only product to own... period.
- William Stone, USA
The product comes in 3 distinct editions that determine which features will be available:
The product is licensed based on the number of passwords / keycodes / random numbers / usernames you plan to generate as follows:
Note that the term "password" really means any random string that this product can produce, including: passwords, keycodes, random numbers, usernames, hashes, etc.
Additionally we offer a development library containing all password generation features of this product in the form of .NET 2.0 Dynamic Library (DLL) that lets developers use password generation features in their own business applications / web sites. This library comes with detailed Documentation. It is sold separately however, so please contact us for more information and pricing.
Please review the table below for a detailed comparison of Standard, Professional, and Server editions. The prices shown below are for Starter License and do not reflect possible discounts! Prices for other licenses that include possible discounts are available on the order page.
| Product Editions |
|---|
| Detailed Documentation & Help |
| Basic Mode |
| Advanced Mode |
| Pronounceable Mode |
| Mask Mode |
| Number Mode |
| Number Distributions |
| Generate to File |
| Usernames Generation |
| Duplicate Checks |
| Password Filters |
| Character Groups |
| Character Policies |
| Transforms |
| Words & Dictionaries |
| Sequences |
| Database Export/Import |
| Hash Generation |
| E-Mail Notification |
| Export to Excel |
| Encrypted Password Lists |
| Scriptable Command Line Tool |
We can help you integrate Password Generator with your existing business logic, extend product's functionality, or otherwise customize it to meet your requirements!
Development Library that contains all password generation functionality of this product is available separately for purchase as a COM-Compatible .NET DLL that you can use to leverage Password Generator's functionality in your own projects.
Please contact us to get Development Library. We will also be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding licensing, pricing, integration, and other issues.
If Password Generator 2014 is not exactly what you are looking for, we can customize it for you so it specifically meets your needs! It can be done at a low cost to you, as Password Generator 2014 provides a solid foundation upon which new features can be effectively added by our experienced developers to quickly create a customized, professional solution that meet your needs!
Keep in mind that contracting us to customize the product will be much cheaper and faster than hiring a programmer or doing the work with your own resources, as we have extensive experience in the area of custom development, and what's more - Password Generator 2014 is a solid foundation upon which all the extra functionality that you desire can be built. More than 10 000 man-hours and over 100 000 lines of code went into the creation of Password Generator 2014, so recreating even part of its functionality from scratch would require lots of resources.
There are many reasons to use passwords. Here are some common reasons to use them:
To begin discussion about the importance of random passwords, it must be said that it is a myth that frequently used passwords or passwords that are based on personal information are secure. The fact is - they are not. Furthermore, even if you are to use some free random password generators online, you will be far from being safe, as those random password generators lack sophisticated security and randomization technology required to generate truly random passwords. So why do people rely on the passwords they make up in their heads or the ones generated free online tools? Here are the common reasons why people might use such passwords:
Look through the above list of reasons why people use "easy passwords" and think do they really worth the risk of someone being able to hack into your user accounts and steal or even delete your information? The answer is No, - it does not worth that risk!
Realizing that there is a need for a new generation of random password generators that will have advanced randomization methods and security checks, we set to work on Password Generator 2014. The result is that we created user-friendly, easy-to-use, and yet professional and customizable tool that generates very strong and secure random passwords - truly random passwords if you wish.
Truly random passwords have one major advantage compared to other passwords (those that you make up in your head for example). They are simply more secure and reliable, as it is impossible to guess them, and extremely difficult to crack.
Look through the following advantages of random passwords, generated by Password Generator 2014 compared to regular passwords:
We suggest you review the following password tips, as there is not a single password generator that will protect you, if for example you write down your passwords and live them on your desk.
