Advanced Password Generator

With the Advanced Password Generator, you can generate a random password and define exactly which characters it should contain. In addition, you can save these settings as a template and use them for any other password which you later create with this password generator.

You can use the Advanced Password Generator when you add or modify a password entry. In the dialog window for adding or modifying an entry, click on the Generate button (the star symbol), then switch to the Advanced tab in the dialog that opens.

The password generator offers three tabs: Standard, Advanced, and Passphrase. This topic describes the Advanced tab.

Template

First of all, select a Template from the drop-down list:

  • Custom password settings: Allows you to create your own password template. You can save it under a name of your choice by clicking the Save button to the right. The next time you create a password, this template will also be shown in the drop-down list for templates. To delete a custom template you no longer need, select this template on the list and click the Delete button.
  • Default settings for new passwords: Automatically adopts global default settings.
  • Deduct settings from the current password: If you are currently modifying (and not adding) an existing password, the program will automatically choose this option which adopts the existing entry's settings for the new password.

Password settings

Here, you can define the characters the password should consist of:

  • Password length: Define the number of characters the password should consist of. You can select a number between five and 256.
  • Use only following characters: Enter some characters here, from which your password should be created. For instance, if you enter "abcdef" into this field, the generated password will only consist of these six characters.
  • Use following character types with relative frequencies: Check all the character types which the password should contain:
    • Lowercase
    • Uppercase
    • Numbers
    • Special
    • Custom – Enter additional characters in the associated input field (e.g. umlauts such as ÄäÖöÜüß).
    Using the slider next to each type, you can set a percentage which indicates how frequently the selected character type will be used for the password.

NOTE: Because UTF-8 is too extensive (64,000 characters), only the first 256 ASCII characters are supported.

  • Use at least one character of each type selected above: Select this option to ensure that at least one character from every type is used for the password. For example: If you select uppercase letters, numbers and special characters as types and check this option, the created password will contain at least one uppercase letter, one number and one special character, even if it is only five characters long.
  • Exclude characters: Activate this option and define specific characters to be excluded by the password generator when creating new passwords. Enter all characters you would like to exclude in the associated input field. By default, some pre-selected characters which look similar and may therefore be mistaken are already listed (for example the 0=zero and O=the character O). You can add or remove as many characters as you like.
  • Exclude consecutive identical characters: Select this option to avoid that the same character is used twice in a row in the password, for example "ZZ".
  • Exclude strings from dictionaries: Select this option to avoid using character strings that are included in dictionaries. Such sequences of characters or words can be remembered easily, but also belong to the most crackable passwords.

Password

Here, the password is being generated and its quality is being assessed.

  • Generate: Creates a random password based on your settings. With the arrow button, you can define how many passwords the generator tries out in order to find the best result.
  • Password: Your generated password will appear here.
  • Password quality: Below the password field, the quality of the password is displayed, including the character count and bit strength. The longer and bluer the quality bar, the stronger your password.
  • Show: Shows the password in plain text. When the password is already visible, the button changes to Hide.
  • Copy: Copies the password to the clipboard.

Click OK to copy the password to the clipboard or save it in the window for adding or modifying entries. If you want to end the process without saving the password, click Cancel.