Nowadays, everyone should have an additional layer of security for their online accounts. Whether this is your social media account, email account or internet banking account, it’s essential to set an exceptionally strong and difficult to guess password or passphrase to stay protected from brute force attacks. Unfortunately, many still use passwords like qwerty123, password123, myname&date-of-birth, etc. Most of these passwords are really easy to remember but may not be strong enough to safeguard your account. This is where third-party password generators come in. If you are a Chrome user, the you can use its built-in password generator, else you can also opt for a standalone password generator like our freeware PassBox or Password Tech (formerly, PWGen).
Create secure passwords or passphrases
Password Tech is an awesome third-party password generator available for free. Although the official website of Password Tech does not provide information about availability or compatibility, you can use this software on Windows 11 and Windows 10 without any issues.
Password Tech features
Password Tech has features that are very useful. Here is its list of features:
- Create password using various conditions
- Multiple character sets support
- Character only password, word only password etc.
- Save passwords in text file
- Create profile for different types of passwords
- Encrypt/Decrypt clipboard
- Use Hotkey/keyboard shortcut to open Password Tech
- Password manager
It has more other useful features. But, you need to use it to get them all.
How to create strong password using Password Tech
This is very easy since the UI is uncluttered. First, download Password Tech and install it on your PC. While installing this software, you will get an option to Store the program setting (PwTech.ini) in the program folder instead of the %APPDATA% folder.
By default, it gathers all files in %APPDATA% folder. If you want to let it stores all program settings in program folder, you will have to make a tick next to Store program settings (PwTech.ini) in program folder instead of %APPDATA% folder.
You can also create a desktop shortcut during installation.
After running the freeware, the following screen will open up.
Now, you can set it up according to your requirements. It offers several options, character sets, word counts to create password. The very first option is Character set. You can use various sets.
<AZ>: A…Z
<az>: a…z
<09>: 0…9
<Hex>: 0…9, A…F
<hex>: 0…9, a…f
<high>: High ANSI characters
<base64>: <AZ><az><09>, +, /
To create a password, you just need to select the length of the password that you wish to have and the character set.
The second option is Include words. You can add words in the passwords. By default, it provides a word list, which works well. However, if you have any custom word list, you can enter it here. You can enter maximum 100 words in your password.
The last option is Format Password. You can choose various formats to create a strong password.
There are various formats like %{%6A%L%d%}. Each format helps users to create a different password. The following image can let you know about the formats.
After setting up everything according to your requirements, hit the Generate button. You will get your password in the Generated password box. A status bar is positioned under the Generated password box. This status bar indicates how strong your password is.
In this way, you can create one password at a time. If you want to create 5 passwords or 10 password at once, just click on the Generate button, which is positioned under Format password box.
Instead of using your name, date of birth, pet name etc. as your password, this is far better to use a password generator, which can create strong password or passphrase.
One of the essential features of Password Tech is the password manager. You can open the included password manager by going to File > Password Manager. After that, you can find a window like this:
It is possible to enter the website title, username, password, URL, keyword, etc. You can add notes so that you can recognize the password or website quickly in the future.
You can download Password Tech from here.
How do I create a secure password?
There are several things to do and not to do while creating a secure and strong password. For example, it is not recommended to include your name, date of birth, pet name, known places, etc., in the password. You should always include capital and small letter combination, digits, characters, etc. to create a secure password.
