Key Maker

Key Maker is a small-sized application that features intuitive options for securely creating complex keys made from a random combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols without having to remember or write them down.

It produces the passwords by taking into account up to three secret phrases that can actually be remembered, whether they are a user name, description or any other keyword.

The interface is clear-cut, represented by a single panel that encompasses all settings put at your disposal. By default, only one key phrase can be entered to generate a password at a button's click.

However, you can unlock two other areas for indicating a description and username to strengthen security if you fear that someone else might get ahold of Key Maker to decrypt your keys.

Worth noting is that every single character (even blank space) is taken into account for the randomization, as the generated key changes dynamically. It's not case sensitive, though, so it cannot tell apart small letters from large ones.

If you're interested in creating multiple passwords at the same time, you can put together a plain text document with distinct key phrases on each line, save it, and then load it into this program. It produces separate passwords for each key phrase and appends them to each line, thus automatically overwriting the .TXT file.

Advanced users may fiddle with the password complexity by increasing or decreasing the number of characters utilized (default is 8), as well as by including or excluding digits, uppercase letters, and any number of symbols. The list of special characters can be personalized.

Key Maker can be asked to autorun at every Windows startup until further notice, minimize to the systray, and remember the history with secret phrases if you're certain that no one else has access to your computer. Otherwise, you can instruct the app to erase history securely.

The whole application is packed into just one file, which can be saved in any part of the hard drive or copied to a USB flash disk to launch the utility on any machine directly. No new entries are implemented into the system registry, and no files are produced on the disk without permission.

Key Maker is different from other password generators because it doesn't ask you to remember the keys but only the phrases used for creating them. On the other hand, this means that you depend on this application every time you need to identify the passwords, so you have to keep it on you at all times.