What is a strong password?
Any password that isn't easy to guess, hasn't been reused, and is long enough to withstand brute-force attacks can be considered a strong password. Additionally, it's also essential to ensure your passwords have never been exposed to the dark web through data breaches. Strong passwords clear these checks.
How to create a unique, strong password?
To create a secure password, you should first ensure your password is long. According to the NIST guidelines, the minimum length for any password is eight characters. However, we recommend and encourage you to create longer passwords. The longer your password, the stronger the account's security. To ensure your passwords are unique, refrain from reusing them across different accounts. In case of an attack, password reuse will widen the exposure of your data if attackers try reusing your credentials across various applications. Finally, avoid using credentials that have already been exposed and are readily available through other data breaches.
Can a strong password get hacked?
Technically, any password can be exposed. Even if you use a strong password, there's virtually no guarantee that it will never get compromised. However, if your passwords are long, unique, and random, it will take longer—sometimes even years—for an attacker to crack them using brute force. This is why it's important to use a strong password generator while creating passwords.
Why use a password generator?
In our online world, we use anywhere between 25 and 100 applications every week. It can be stressful or tedious to manually create unique, strong passwords for every account. Thus, it's essential to adopt a strong password generator. Using a random password generator tool, you can efficiently create multiple strong passwords for all your accounts. If you use a password manager, you can securely save these passwords to your password vault.
How do password generators work?
A good random password generator ensures that the passwords generated are cryptographically secure random values. These passwords cannot be predicted by attackers even if they replicate the algorithm used by the generator, thereby proving to be adequately safe.
Are password generators safe?
Some password generators use pseudo-random algorithms to generate strong passwords. However, they're not cryptographically secure, so can be vulnerable to external threats. Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generation (CSPRNG) algorithms make it impossible for any attacker to calculate or guess any generated values (passwords) from the password generator. To accomplish this, CSPRNGs use randomness (entropy) obtained from a high-quality source, generally the operating system's randomness API. This ensures your random passwords can never be guessed or identified by malicious actors.