PasswordMaker:Untraceable Password Generator

Jul 23, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

The makers of this tool have come up with an interesting take on The Lord of the Rings. They say, “One password to rule them all.”

This is a small, lightweight, free, extension for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Flock, and Yahoo! Widgets (a widget is an interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window). It creates unique, secure passwords that are very easy for the user to retrieve, but for no-one else. Since nothing is stored anywhere, anytime, there’s nothing to be hacked, lost, or stolen.

How It Works

The user provides PasswordMaker two pieces of information: a master password, and the URL of the site requiring a password.Then using one-way hash algorithms, PasswordMaker calculates a message digest (a.k.a. digital fingerprint), which can be used as the user’s password for the Web site.

PasswordMaker claims that the resulting fingerprint (password) does not reveal anything about the input that was used to generate it. This means that if somebody has one of your passwords, even then it is infeasible for him to derive your master password.

Portability

The online version works in all browsers, and it requires no downloads or installations. Standalone versions for desktops, mobile phones, and PDAs are under development.

Installation and start

For Netscape, Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Firefox users, the install is done automatically from the company’s site when the user clicks on Downloads in the menu (on the right) and then clicks on Browser Extensions. Others need to download the files, and then install it.

For Mozilla and Netscape users, the toolbar icon is installed by default. For Firefox users, the toolbar icon must be manually added by using the View > Toolbars > Customize menu, and then dragging the golden ring icon on to the toolbar.

Once you’ve opened the extension using one of these methods, you are presented with the Basic Options screen. From here on,
the usage is really simple.

Website:PasswordMaker

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