Punchcast Password Generator

Explanation

Using the same password for multiple email, e-commerce and social networking websites is risky, it means that a security breach at one website will compromise all your accounts, possibly even leading to identity theft.

So, the idea is that you memorise just one, reasonably long/secure master password and use that to generate a set of non-dictionary passwords. Copy and paste the new password(s) into the website and set your web browser to remember them.

All the websites get different passwords, but you only have to remember one!

Using a different PC? you can re-generate the same set of passwords at any time by returning to this page and entering the same master password.

• This password generator works using Javascript, entirely within the page, no data is ever passed back to my server.
• You can save this page and use it off-line.
• For any website that's not on the list, just type the name into the 'Custom' box (the last one in the list) and press Generate.
• N.B. Using UPPER and lower case will produce different passwords.
• Most websites will send a password reset via email, so it's a good idea to set the password for that email account to something completely different, just in case you ever forget the master password!
• All the generated passwords end in "1a", to guarantee they contain at least one letter and one number.

Credits

This page is based on (and is compatible with) Nic Wolff's password generator it uses the same JavaScript implementation of the Secure Hash Algorithm, (SHA-1, ©Paul Johnston, distributed under the BSD License.) The iPhone version is by Karim Cassam Chenaï.

Simon Sheppard ( ), July 2010 Punchcast.com