tidepass is a password generating program.

I found Alan Karp’s sitepass program to be quite useful, however one limitation I had is that it wasn’t very portable (Update: You can E-mail him for other platform versions). I couldn’t just use it on a Linux or Mac computer, and because I also use these to access online services I needed a password generator that was cross-platform.

I was thus inspired to create tidepass.

tidepass is a clone of sitepass, but written in Java. Using java also means it is very easy to change the algorithm used for the encryption.The idea is you have one universal hard to guess passphrase and a list of easy to remember names. The program generates a password for you to use, and therefore you only have to remember the hard to guess passphrase and get the easy name from your list.

 

• The background color of the “hard to guess passphrase” changes depending on the strength of it. To get green you need at least 1 lower, 1 upper, 1 numeric and 1 symbol character.
• If you append your “Passphrase name” with “:<a number>” the generated password will be cut to that length. Eg. If I wanted a password of length 5, I would type a passphrase name of cheekimonki:5 - This is useful for all those crappy sites that limit your password length to something small.
• For extra security, the passphrase name and the generated password will be reset after 20secs. This is useful if you generate a password, and then forget to clear it, so your password is not left visible for a long period of time.