Password Generator

Set the length to at least 16 characters, switch on uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols, then click Generate. The tool produces a random string like "K7$mP@xR2nQ!vL9w" that's nearly impossible to guess or brute-force. Copy it straight into your password manager — don't try to memorise it, that's not the point. Strong passwords are about randomness and length, not cleverness. The longer and more varied the character set, the harder it is for an attacker to crack.

Aim for 16 characters or more for general accounts and 20-plus for anything sensitive like banking or email. Length matters more than character variety because every extra character roughly doubles the time needed to brute-force the password. A 16-character random password mixing letters, numbers, and symbols would take a determined attacker effectively forever with current hardware. Use a password manager so length doesn't become a memorisation problem you have to solve every login.

12 characters is the bare minimum these days, 16 is the comfortable target, and 20-plus is what you want for accounts protecting money, identity, or work data. Hardware keeps getting faster, so old advice about 8-character passwords no longer holds up. The catch — long passwords are hard to remember, so use a password manager. Generate it once, save it, and let your manager autofill. You don't need to know it; you just need to use it.

Switch on the Symbols toggle along with letters and numbers. The generator includes characters like !, @, #, $, %, &, *, ?, and so on. Set your length, click Generate, and you get something like "T9@kP$mR!nQx7vL". Some sites still don't accept certain symbols (looking at you, banks that disallow ampersands), so if your password keeps getting rejected during sign-up, regenerate without the problematic symbol or check the site's password rules first.

Turn on the "exclude ambiguous characters" toggle. That removes confusing pairs like the letter O and the number 0, capital I and lowercase l and the number 1, capital B and the number 8. The generator then picks only from clearly distinguishable characters. Useful when you'll have to type the password somewhere — handing a Wi-Fi password to a guest, reading it off a printed sheet, or dictating over a phone call. For copy-paste use, ambiguity doesn't matter.

Set the length to 20 characters or more and turn on letters, numbers, and symbols. A long random Wi-Fi password is hard to brute-force and rarely needs to be typed — once a device is paired, the password stays cached. If you regularly hand the password to guests, switch on "exclude ambiguous characters" so reading "I, l, 1" or "O, 0" out loud doesn't cause confusion. Save it in your password manager and share through a QR code if your router supports one.

The generator shows an entropy estimate next to your generated password, in bits. Higher is better. A 16-character password using letters, numbers, and symbols comes out around 100 bits of entropy — strong enough to resist brute-force attempts for a very long time. Below 60 bits is considered weak, 80 to 100 is good, above 100 is excellent. The number depends on length and the size of the character set you've enabled — more types means more entropy.