PWGen Portable was designed as a handy and very easy-to-use password generator.
It was created in order to help you create large amounts of cryptographically secure random passwords or passphrases (from word lists).
The program uses a random pool to gather entropy from user inputs and system parameters. the software also offers text encryption.
What's New in This Release:
NEW FEATURES:
· new option "Format Password": allows you to fully customize the passwords by providing a pattern-based generation using placeholders (for inserting characters from various character sets) and other format specifiers (e.g., for permuting character sequences)
· introduction of command line switches
· ambiguous characters may be provided in groups of similar-looking characters (e.g., "B8 G6 I1l| 0OQD S5 Z2")
· new "Advanced" option "Convert all words in word lists to lower-case"
· word lists are loaded automatically
· new "quick help" buttons for character set & word list box
· new option "Enabled Password Testing" in context menu of password box: enables the user to manipulate the contents of the box and let PWGen estimate the security of the entered sequence
· new "password quality bar" below the password box: length & color of the bar signify security of the generated password (the longer & greener, the better)
· random seed file is created/overwritten in order to preserve entropy coll...