Functionality includes:

• Creating your custom password.
• Running a check of that custom password against a list of commonly used passwords
• Generating a complex custom password based on user input of a number of characters for the password (with a warning message for short passwords)
• Encrypted the generated password using a simple substitution cipher
• Decrypting a ciphertext that was created using the above encryption

It is common knowledge for most these days that a strong password is necessary for security online.

A strong password consists of:

• A combination of numbers, letters and special characters
• A random ordering of characters (i.e. no consecutive letters or numbers)
• Definitely no common phrases or words (like ‘password’…)
• At least 16 characters This reddit user shared a great visual that describes perfectly what a strong password means:

With that in mind, and as an introduction to some fundamentals of Python, I decided to implement a password generator as my first ever pet project. I have made 2 password generators:

• v1.0 – provides the user with a 16 digit password that is guaranteed to be a random assortment of letters, capital letters, numbers and special characters
• v2.0 – provides a password based on the user input of how many digits they would like the password to be set for. It gives the user a warning if the password is less than 8 digits.