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grifforix

The grifforix, Marcos Paulo Soares

The grifforix, Marcos Paulo Soares


grifforix aims to be a strong and secure password generator made in Java, it uses the Java's java.security.SecureRandom library for Random Cryptography methods. I have plans to make it also a secure authenticator software in the future. grifforix is currently experimental in v.0.9.2-alpha.

grifforix is under the Apache 2.0 license, please read it carefully.

Demo

The grifforix in execution

This is grifforix in use, I restricted the character limit to 20 just for demonstration purposes, but you can virtually generate a giant password if you want. Note that passwords are displayed with a good combination of all types of characters.

How it Works

Well, first, it does not uses common methods like the famous C's rand() — that is a pseudo-random function for number generation, but it actually uses Java's SecureRandom class that generates a cryptographically secure random number for the algorithm of password generation.

In computing when a number is mathematically generated in a deterministically way its called "pseudo-random number" or just PRNG. That's not secure because the PRNG is not truly random since it is completely determined by an initial value, called the PRNG's "seed".

John von Neumann once said: "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."

Cryptographic applications require the output not to be predictable from earlier outputs. With that said, this comes a necessity of a truly random number generator or a RNG. Java language has SecureRandom for that... it smartly calls directly OS functions for true randomness. And with that, we use it to do the algorithm of the password generation.

Check the wiki for more information.

Credits

JavaPackager for building native binaries for Windows and Linux: https://github.com/fvarrui/JavaPackager