ONE-LINER

LINUX/MacOS

openssl rand -base64 20

Example) YnKFUmVPYzQDrK3QT5NZ0Wh51kMBaXw=

pwgen 10

Example) giepahl3Oy

gpg —gen-random —armor 1 14

Example) 1Hs0a5BYKlcRY0wvPy8=

#uuidgen | tr -d ‘\n’

Example) 9C3CF72D-175D-41D6-ADC1-173D784CFBD7

WINDOWS

PS> $Password = (char[] + (char[]) + 0..9 | sort {Get- Random})[0..8] -join ”
Example) Fj-Rs!4p2z

PS>dir C:\Windows\. | Get-Random | Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA1

Example) 819AABA1653415766D4A6B0F5F89833F4E40AA27

SCRIPTABLE

LINUX/MacOS

@Echo Off
Set /A Rnd=%Random%
Set PassLenght=10
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion EnableExtensions
Set TotalChars=72
Set CharSet=0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWQYZ()_+-!@#$
:Loop
Set /A Rnd=%TotalChars%%Random%/32768
Set Pswd=!CharSet:~%Rnd%,1!%Pswd%
Set /A PassLenght-=1
If %PassLenght% GTR 0 GoTo Loop
@echo %Pswd%
pause

WINDOWS

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Online Password Generation Resources

• Passphrase and Password Generator
• GRC’s Ultra High Security Password Generator
• LastPass Online Password Generator
• Peerio Passphrase Generator

Password Managers

• Keepass
• LastPass
• 1Password

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