Password generator using Python

 

Password generator using Python

1. Introduction

In today’s digital world a strong password is the first line of defense against cyber threat is the strong password. One of the leading causes of data breach is the weak and reused password.

In this article, we’ll build a password generator using Python, a simple yet effective Cybersecurity project ideal for beginners. It utilizes the python libraries such as random and string which allows in generating random number, alphabet and special characters.

 

2. Project Objective

It is the short and the weekend project which can be completed within hours which helps you to brush-up your python skills and understanding of the language. The password generate takes user input to determine the length of the password and if the given length is less than the appropriate length then the generator reply with the “The length must be equal or greater than 8” and if the user give appropriate length for the generator it will proceed with the generation of the password.

 

3. Understanding the Logic

Libraries used:

1.     Random : It is used to generate random selection

2.     String : It is used to access sets of characters like the letter, digit and punctuations.

Ø  string.ascii_letters

Ø  string.digital

Ø  string.puntuation

Conditional Statement

1.     if

2.     else

 

4. Code Walkthrough

import random

import string

 

len = int(input("Enter the length password: "))   #taking user input from the user

if len >=8: #checking if the given user input satisfies the length

 def password_generator(length: int = len):

  alp = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + string.punctuation

  password = "".join(random.choice(alp) for i in range(length))

  return password

 pass_gen = password_generator()

 print("Password Generated: "+pass_gen)

else:

 print("The length must be equal or greater than 8")

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Results:

Test 1: The length of the password is shorter than the appropriate size “8”

 

Test 2: The length of the password is of the appropriate size.