How to use the Secure Password Generator
Concerned about your online privacy? Use the TextMagic Secure Password Generator to instantly generate personalized and strong passwords for your online accounts. Here’s how you can use our random password generator:
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- Step #1: In order to generate your random password you must first select your criteria for generation. You must first choose the length of your password (between 5 and 16 characters). Next you can choose to include symbols, numbers, lowercase characters, or uppercase characters.
- Step #2: The complex password generator will show you the security level of your password as you add or remove options. To ensure the privacy of your online accounts it is recommended that you create a very strong password. This can be done by increasing the length of the passphrase or by including special symbols and numbers.
- Step #3: Click on the ‘Generate password’ button to create your random password. You can edit options or click on the button again to generate a new password. Click on the ‘copy password’ button to save it to your clipboard. We also recommend creating a master list with all your passwords in a plain text file and encrypting it with GPG, disk encryption or 7-Zip.
Why you should use the secure password generator
A strong password is essential for protecting your personal and professional assets online. Security experts recommend users generate secure passwords for every website and account. Sadly, most online users choose bad passwords (e.g. their name, birthday, child’s name, or a predictable sequence of numbers) for all their accounts. These types of passwords are extremely easy to crack and once an account is compromised, there’s nothing the user can do about it. On the other hand, manually generating strong passwords can be a tedious task. This is exactly why you should use a random password generator online!
Why we created this tool
We created the online password generator because we care about your online privacy. We also know how painful it is to lose precious information or, worse, your assets, to hackers. To ensure that this never happens to you, we built this simple, yet extremely powerful, passphrase generator.
Benefits of using the secure password generator
The benefits of using a random password generator are obvious:
- A strong password generated online can help you protect the security of your personal and professional email accounts, social network accounts, WiFi encryption, banking and financial and savings accounts.
- A passphrase generator will save you the trouble of having to think about a strong password yourself.
How does password generation work?
Strong password generation is done client-side. You select your criteria for generating the password, and the generation process happens on your computer, with JavaScript. This means that your passwords are never shared with us or other users.
What makes a password strong?
A strong password should be at least 15 characters long and contain the following elements:
- Special symbols like: ! ” $ ? $ ? % ^ & * ( ) _ – + = { [ } ] # @
- A mix between lowercase and uppercase letters (e.g. XiDmDKxlArosD)
- Random numbers (e.g. isX223Xdkd193xKss1)
- Words that aren’t in the dictionary (quckeldovas19d##92s)
What makes a password weak?
Weak passwords generally represent a mix between the following elements:
- Your login details, username, name, or birthday.
- The name of a friend, family member, child or any common name.
- A word from the dictionary.
- A variation of one of your former passwords.
- A simple keyword pattern like qwerty, 123456 or zxcvbnm.
How can I keep my account secure?
‘Free Internet’ is a concept that we usually take for granted. The Internet is teeming with dangerous things like cyber-crime, hackers, Trojans, phishing, scams, online threats and viruses. Here are a few suggestions that will help you improve the security of your accounts and systems:
- Use a random password generator to create impossible to crack passwords.
- Use password managers such as LastPass or KeePass for multiple accounts.
- Don’t let your browsers store passwords because they can be revealed easily.
- Don’t use free wireless networks to access sensitive accounts.
- Constantly update your operating system and anti-virus software.
- Backup or encrypt passwords to different locations.
- Never turn OFF your User Account Control (UAC).
- Turn on two-step authentication.
- Browse the internet through a secure browser.
- Bookmark websites such as PayPal or bank account portals to avoid scams.
- Don’t simply close your browser when you finish an operation. Also log out of your online accounts.
- NEVER store critical passwords in the cloud.
How often should I change my passwords?
Security experts recommend changing a password once every 10 weeks.
Do you store passwords generated with this tool?
No. We never store passwords generated by our customers. In any case, they are generated directly on your computer using JavaScript, not on the internet.
