Password Generator for Windows

Easy To Read.Some characters look like other characters or numbers. In that case it's better to remove both if you are going to send them by SMS or if recipient is expected to struggle while entering them from screen or paper. For example - O looks like 0, 1 like l (that was lowercase L) or I (uppercase i), and so on.Adjacent characters.It's easier to remember your password, if characters form a geometric figure. And to form such they have to be adjacent. Try to type the PIN 145858 - if you will use the right keypad, you will notice that they form an easy to memorise figure. This feature is great for PIN codes, but could also be used for passwords. Bear in mind, that applying this technique to passwords make them much less secure, if attacker knows that such principle was applied.Pronounceable passwords.Another feature for better memorising or spelling is Pronounceable Passwords - this way password is generated as combination of syllables. This will make your password much less secure, just like using Adjacent characters.

Adding Cyrillic (Russian) and Chinese characters.English alphabet contains 26 characters. This means that 8 characters long password will contain over 208 billion variations. Russian alphabet contains 33 characters, which make almost 7 times more variations. Mix them together in a password, and you'll get 703 times stronger password than with plain English. It's fair to say that 8 character mixed password is stronger than 10 character English one.Even if you can't type Cyrillic, you can still copy-paste them, as they are perfectly normal Unicode (or ASCII CP 855) characters, so if you are using password managing applications, then Cyrillic may serve you well.Like the English one, the Cyrillic passwords make use of Easy to Read, Adjacent and Pronounceable features.When you select "(mix)", the password may contain both English and Cyrillic characters, but if you select "Cyrillic letters only", no English characters will be used.