How many passwords do you use? I’ve already given up counting mine. The list just keeps getting longer and longer, since i use a new password for every application or web site. (I hope you do this too.) Of course, it’s hard to remember all of them. So I save them in an encrypted file using Locknote. Infinite Password Generator offers another solution for this password problem. Instead of saving your passwords with a password manager, you generate the password each time you need it. Sounds strange, but it works.

Infinite Password Generator creates a password using the MD5 hash algorithm. All you need is a master password and a keyword. The keyword should be easy to remember, a term that you associate with the corresponding account. For example, for your Google mail account, you could use “Gmail”. The generated password can’t be guessed by an attacker. If you forget the password, all you have to do, is to generate it again using the master password and the keyword. The MD5 algorithm assures that the generated password will be always the same.

Infinite Password Generator can store all your keywords. This is not risky since an attacker would still need the the master password to generate your passwords. So all in all you use this tool like a password manager since you only have to memorize one password, the master password. However, with this method you don’t save your passwords in a file. Saving passwords is always a risk and if you lose this file, you will probably be lost too. If you chose your keywords carefully, you still will be able to reconstruct your passwords even if your keyword list is destroyed.

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