ASCII Pass Gen

Passwords are main requirements for the majority of services which offer to save some details about your or info associated with you. It can be pretty frustrating and difficult to come up with something new every time. Luckily, there are an abundance of specialized applications like ASCII Pass Gen you can use to your advantage.

On the bright side of things, the application comes in a lightweight package and doesn’t even take you through a setup process to make its features available to you. A rather simplistic window is brought up on launch, but this simplicity makes individuals of all levels of experience quickly get the hang of things.

As the name suggests, the application focuses on generating password in the ASCII format. This doesn’t mean such passwords can only be used in particular services, on the contrary, it can be your way to create a pretty powerful password for general purpose. In fact, the application simply generates a large string which you cut into custom passwords.

You get to select the character sets to use, and the application lets you select digits, lower or uppercase characters, as well as special symbols. You can include all of them, or even manually pick custom characters from all sets which are displayed in a character map. The password is usually generated on the spot, but you can update at any moment.

You might end up a little confused by the result, because it’s pretty lengthy with no options to specify target length. This isn’t really an inconvenience, because it lets you configure length by selecting strings from the field. The number of selected characters is displayed so you know when you reach the goal. Selection is sent to the clipboard at the press of a button.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that ASCII Pass Gen is a neat application which is sure to help you generate some pretty powerful passwords. Although length is rather peculiar to configure, it’s pretty intuitive overall and allows you to include custom characters.