Gordon’s Place

To paraphrase the opening sentence of The Nerd Handbook, every geek has to have a project or two on the go to keep them out of mischief. Well, my latest side project has just gone live. It’s called simplepassword.com and it’s supposed to help you out with the password fatigue that we all get these days from having logins to dozens / hundreds of different websites. And it’s supposed to be very simple. The idea is that you pick a single “master” password and then use that password together with the URL for the website you want to login to, to generate a password.

I’m using a hash to generate passwords from the combination of your master password and the URL of the website you want to login to. This means that I can accurately re-generate a password for a given site from the same master password and also that the passwords generated for each URL will all be different from each other. That last bit is pretty important. Using simplepassword.com to generate your passwords will give you strong distinct passwords for each website you use.

The site is up and running right now, so please check it out and leave your feedback. There should be a feedback tab on each page, feel free to make use of it.