What's new in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 18.0
May 20, 2021
- Updated length of password (maximum: 64)
- Updated List of worst passwords (+22)
- Improvement of pronounceable section
- New function: Poetry section. Replacement of 'e' with other symbols
- New function: Properties available in the list section
- âImprovement of histogram (WPA2 key)
- New function: Create a dictionary from the list section
- Improvement of design
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 17.0 (Jun 10, 2019)
- New tool: Pick up your pseudo
- New tool: Hash detector
- Improvement of certain features
- Correction of minor bug
- Rule 4 modified
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 16.0 (Apr 2, 2019)
- Automatic removal of duplicate passwords and passwords with low entropy
- New: status bar
- Update of list of worst passwords (end 2018)
- New: similarity between 2 passwords based now on Jaro-Winkler and Levenshtein distance
- Cryptocode module updated (key)
- WPA2 module updated (histogram)
- Code improvement
- Gui improvement
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 15.0 (Nov 18, 2018)
- New option in the dictionary module
- New option in the morse module
- New option in the WPA2 key generator module
- Update in memo section (text attributes)
- Code improvement
- Gui improvement
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 14.0 (Apr 23, 2018)
- Compare directly 2 passwords from the list of passwords
- Improved password list management
- 2 new functions added
- Details on Cardinality
- Code improvement
- Gui improvement
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 13.0 (May 29, 2017)
- Status indicators: Caps Lock, Num Lock, Clipboard
- Password versus Password
- 1 rule
- Other minor improvements
- More emoticons
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 12.0 (Feb 6, 2017)
- Improvement of GUI
- Simplification of module 'Emoticons' (new concept)
- Password cardinality
- Search password in worst list
- New section 'Report' added with essential operations info
- Other minor improvements
- The list of 10,000 worst passwords based on the work made by Mark Burnett (xato.net) updated by me, includes now 10,007 passwords
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 11.0 (May 30, 2016)
- Improvement of algorithm in the cryptocode module
- New option: Possible to edit a password directly - when listed in the section 'list of passwords'
- New option: Purge. Keep only if entropy >= 100
- Adding of one more rule
- Now it is possible to uncheck 'Clear Clipboard' and 'keyboard buffer' before exit. Checked by default
- Many other small improvements
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 10.0 (Dec 22, 2015)
- Adding of new module in Strong generator: Piece of poetry
- Adding CSV format to 'Evaluate entropy of passwords in batches'
- Adding of one more rule
- Improvement of histogram design in wpa2 key generator
- Adding of 28 more emoticons
- Adding of punctuation mark option: 'Insert colon' in the dictionary module
- Improvement of module 'Pronounceable words'
- New function - view log and copy log to clipboard
- Copy all information of the password (section 'Password information') to log
- Several overall improvements
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 9.0 (Oct 22, 2015)
- Adding of 3 new modules in Strong Generator: Hexspeak, Leetspeak and Dictionary
- Simplification of the Morse module; now utilisation of pc keyboard
- Adding of 'ReadMe' section
- Adding of '1 hundred thousand and 1 million' calculation in 'time to crack' information section
- Adding of passphrase in Emoticons section
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 8.5 (Jul 27, 2015)
- New menu item in 'Tools': Adding of 'Evaluate entropy of passwords in batches' - formats: TXT, XML or HTML
- Adding of 'Add to list'
- Adding of hint in 'Password information' section
- Improvement of GUI in the Smileys and Morse section
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 8.0 (May 28, 2015)
- New modernized design
- More Smileys
- Improvement of the code for the following modules: Cryptocode and Pronounceable word
- Adding of Clipboard viewer
- Adding of new conversion formats: ROT13, ROT47, URL encoded, Reverse
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 7.1 (Jan 12, 2015)
- Minor bug fixes related to the clearing of the keyboard buffer
- Minor typo fixes in the module 'Rules'
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 7.0 (Jan 3, 2015)
- Additional notation for the following modules: 'Maximum number of trials needed to find it' and 'Time to crack within'. For example: magnitude of order and much more
- WPA2 key generator with histogram
- Automatic clearing of keyboard buffer and clipboard when closing the application
- Update of rules
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 6.0 (Sep 10, 2014)
- Management of space utilization (more entropy)
- Delete space in your password(s)
- Conversion of password into decimal format
- Different serial styles
- Adding of 'week' in 'time to crack'
- Copy your password(s) with hash info
- Adding of rules
- Improvement of smiley module
- Redesign of Morse module
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 5.5 (Jul 21, 2014)
- Conversion of password into format BASE64
- Redesigned interface of Morse alphabet
- Update of rules
- Optimisation of code
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 5.0 (Jun 19, 2014)
- Redesigned interface
- Improvement of module 'Smileys'
- Improvement of module 'Morse alphabet'
- Adding of new module 'Create list'
- Adding of Pop-up menu in 'List of passwords'
- Adding of 'Time to crack' in information section
- Adding of hexadecimal and binary representation of the password in information section
- Update of FAQ
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 4.0 (May 5, 2014)
- Calculates hash values for your passwords (Supported hash algorithms: SHA256
- Tiger, RMD160, MD5)
- Update of read me (rule added)
- Improvement of char frequency in Password Information
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 3.5 (Jan 23, 2014)
- New module "Serial" in password generator section
- "Readme" updated
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 3.0 (Nov 27, 2013)
- More smileys
- The module 'List of worst passwords' now includes 10,000 worst
- passwords
- Minor changes of interface
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 2.5 (Nov 12, 2013)
- New module 'CryptoCode' in password generator section
- New module 'List of worst passwords'
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 2.0 (Nov 4, 2013)
- Redesigned interface
- More smileys
- Improvement of generator
- Copy/Paste function
- Reduced size of application
- Correction of minors bugs
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 1.1 (May 29, 2013)
- Minor corrections in the management of the symbols
- Improvement of the interface
- Adding additional smileys (baby, looking down, troubled, eyeglasses) in the
- password generator section
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 1.0 (May 25, 2013)
- Minor corrections
- Adding of smileys in the password generator section
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 0.9.5 Beta (May 22, 2013)
- Minor corrections
- Adding of a morse alphabet in the password generator section
New in Strong Passwords Need Entropy (S.P.N.E.) 0.9.1 Beta (May 22, 2013)
- Improvement of GUI
- Adding of coloration in 'password information' for a user friendly reading
- Adding of a password generator with the following formats
- GUID (Globally Unique IDentifier)
- MAC Address
- Classic
- Pronounceable Word
- NB: Only strong passwords are generated
- Adding of functionality 'Clear password information'
- Adding of functionality 'Save my passwords' in a txt format