PassGen

Seeing how online security has become a growing concern, you are often faced with the situation where you are told the password you have entered when creating an account is not strong enough, forcing you to come up with a more difficult string.

However, you may not always have the time to decipher the requirements of every website, which is why it may be simpler to resort to a dedicated app for creating your passkeys. One of the available options is PassGen, is lightweight, standalone tool that can output complex strings with just a click.

Usage-wise, the application should cause little difficulty in working with it, as its self-explanatory interface makes it very intuitive to handle from the first run. All you need to do is specify the length of the passphrase by inputting the number of characters you want it to have.

At the same time, by checking or unchecking specific boxes, you can decide what type of characters it should contain, namely small and capital letters, numbers or special symbols. However, you do not have the possibility of excluding certain items from the password. For instance, if you do not wish for the string to contain the letter ‘D’ or a question mark, you have no way of customizing it.

Another downside consists of the fact that it can only output one passkey at a time, so if you need several of them, you will need to constantly click on the ‘Generate’ button to obtain them. Once displayed in the dedicated field, you can copy them to the clipboard, but you cannot export them.

An attractive feature to some is PassGen’s portability, as it enables you to run it on your computer, from any folder or even a removable storage device, sparing you from having to wait around for the installation to complete.

Similarly, it can be removed from the PC just by deleting it, without leaving any traces on the host system, in the registry or other such locations prone to clutter.

In closing, PassGen is an extremely simple and straightforward piece of software that you can rely on for quickly and effortlessly creating passphrases for your various online accounts, in little to no time at all.