passor

With the general trend of work from home, the importance of security cannot be stressed enough. Even for personal computers, the security standards still stand and can help you avoid a lot of headaches in the long run.

The very basics of security entails having separate passwords for the accounts you are using. After all, passwords are the first line of defense against unauthorized access to your work and home computer.

passor is a lightweight console utility that enables you to generate random strings so that you can set strong passkeys for all your accounts and other online assets.

Since this is a console utility, you need to access it via the default PowerShell or your favorite console. Functionality-wise the application is simple and straightforward and you can get started by typing one of the commands to generate a specific type of password.

You will be happy to learn that the tool provides numerous options in this sense and hence, you can get passwords as short or as long as you need. You can generate passkeys with or without lower and uppercase, numbers, symbols and characters. At the same time, you can generate a base64 and a base16 string.

While it is very tempting and frankly convenient to use the same password for most of your accounts, keep in mind that once one account is cracked, then you risk losing all of them. To avoid this, you should consider using a strong password generator and a password manager where you can safely store and update your passkeys regularly.

In the eventuality that you decided to up your game with security and want a simple way to generate new strong passwords, then perhaps you can consider giving passor a try.