Password generator

How to use the password generator

1. A new password is ready as the page opens: 16 characters, with uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols.
2. Drag Length to make it longer or shorter, and tick the Characters to use. A new password appears with each change.
3. Press Copy, then paste it where you need it: the sign-up form, or your password manager.
4. Don’t like it? Press New for another one.

Leave out look-alikes removes characters that are easy to mix up when you read or type a password: 0 (zero) and O, 1 (one), l and I. Use it for a password you’ll have to type from a note, like a Wi-Fi password.

The password is made by your browser, with the same secure random numbers it uses to protect your connections: each character is picked at random, any of them as likely as the others. Nothing is sent to EasiFox or anyone else, and nothing is saved.

What makes a password strong

A password is strong when it would take too long to guess. What counts is how many passwords like it there are, and that grows fast with each character:

• Length counts most. Each character added multiplies the number of possible passwords by the number of characters to choose from: 87 when all four kinds are ticked.
• Mixing kinds helps. Lowercase letters alone give 26 choices for each character; all four kinds give 87.
• Randomness matters. A password made by a person, like Summer2026!, follows patterns that guessing programs try first. A random one has no pattern to find.

The Strength bar measures this: Weak, Fair, Strong or Very strong.

An example: how long to guess it?

Someone who steals a site’s password list can try billions of guesses a second. At 10 billion a second, trying every password of a given kind takes:

Password	Strength	Time to try them all
8 lowercase letters	Weak	21 seconds
8 characters, all four kinds	Fair	4 days
12 letters and numbers	Strong	10,000 years
12 characters, all four kinds	Strong	600,000 years
16 characters, all four kinds	Very strong	34 trillion years

That’s why the generator starts at 16 characters with all four kinds. Its passwords look like k7#Rv@2pX!m9Lq_e, and a new one appears each time you press New.

Tips for safer accounts

• One password per account. When a site leaks its passwords, attackers try them on other sites. A unique password keeps the leak to one account.
• Use a password manager. Your browser and your phone have one built in: it saves each password and fills it in for you.
• Turn on two-step sign-in (a code from an app or a text message) on your email, bank and social accounts. A stolen password alone then isn’t enough.
• Protect your email above all. It can reset every other password, so give it your strongest one.
• Change a password when there’s a reason: a site tells you it was breached, or you shared it with someone.
• Never send a password by email or message. Share it through your password manager, or say it out loud.