Free Password Generator: Strong, Random Passwords (Plus Passphrases, PINs & Memorable Passwords)

Free Password Generator: Strong, Random Passwords (Plus Passphrases, PINs & Memorable Passwords)

Reusing "the same password with a number swapped in" across every account is still how most people get hacked — not through some sophisticated attack, but because one breached site leaks a password that turns out to unlock a dozen others. A good password generator fixes this at the source: it hands you a genuinely random, unique password for every account in one click, so there's nothing to reuse and nothing to remember wrong. The Password Generator on FWD Tools is a free, browser-based tool that goes further than the basic "random string" generators you'll find elsewhere. It also generates passphrases, numeric PINs, and pronounceable "memorable" passwords, and it shows you exactly how strong whatever it just made really is — in bits of entropy and in estimated time-to-crack — instead of just handing you a string and hoping it's good enough. In this post I'll cover what the tool does, who each mode is for, and how to use it to generate passw…