Random Password Generators

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Marin85 · #1 Post by **Marin85** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 12:14 pm

Hi,

I am looking for a trustworthy random password generator (RPG) with a high level of paranoia. I know there are tons of them, however, firstly, I don´t want ot pick some program that I don´t know anything about, secondly I don´t want to use any "online" rpg for understandable reasons, and thirdly I am hearing that many of these so called rpg´s are actually only pseudo-random. It would be nice to have some options for password lenght and range of used symbols too. Could anyone share some experience with such tools?

Thanks in advance,
Marin

hunterman223 · #2 Post by **hunterman223** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:34 pm

What I would recommend doing is to download a random password generator, rig up a virtual machine, transfer the RPG to it, and disconnect it from the internet and your physical computer. When you are done, trash the Virtual OS.

Marin85 · #3 Post by **Marin85** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:00 pm

hunterman223 wrote:What I would recommend doing is to download a random password generator, rig up a virtual machine, transfer the RPG to it, and disconnect it from the internet and your physical computer. When you are done, trash the Virtual OS.

You are reading my thoughts!

hunterman223 · #4 Post by **hunterman223** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:06 pm

Hah, good to know.

I recommend VirtualBox as the VM client, it's free, so that's a plus. I imagine you could use just about any installation of Windows 2000 or up, you wouldn't even need to activate it if you only need to use it for a second. Just found this now, it looks okay.

snv · #5 Post by **snv** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 6:24 pm

I like this one, which ships with Debian Linux:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/makepasswd

Granted, it uses /dev/urandom, which is a pseudo-random Linux device, but the program is just a Perl script, so, I guess, you could modify it to use /dev/random instead, just to be extra paranoid

. If you know Perl, you can review the code yourself, for the extra peace of mind.

ThinkRob · #6 Post by **ThinkRob** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:52 pm

pwgen.

It works. It's configurable. It's open source. It runs on *nix.

Marin85 · #7 Post by **Marin85** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:34 am

Thanks guys for the good ideas! I was hoping for something that would run on Windows, but I guess, since I am going to use VM anyways, I´ll just create a 'nix VM. I am still open for suggestions for windows-based RPGs though

ThinkRob · #8 Post by **ThinkRob** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:12 am

Marin85 wrote:I am still open for suggestions for windows-based RPGs though

pwgen-win

Marin85 · #9 Post by **Marin85** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:36 am

ThinkRob wrote:pwgen-win

Ah, ok, then I already have the right one

jhonnydeep · #10 Post by **jhonnydeep** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:38 am

Yes its good one marin. i too got this...

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