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Create strong passwords in Windows

2024-03-29

Learn how to create strong and unique passwords in Windows using PowerShell, because the use of those unique and strong passwords is important.

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Generate pseudorandom passwords with OpenSSL

2015-11-17

OpenSSL comes in handy when you need to generate passwords or random strings. For example for system accounts and services. In this short post I'll give you a quick example on how to generate random passwords with OpenSSL in Linux (Bash), Windows and PHP.

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Test SMTP authentication and StartTLS

2014-05-17

Investigate SMTP authentication issues like a boss! When using TLS encrypted SMTP connections, it's always handy if you are able to create a SMTP logon credentials and test SMTP authentication over a TLS/StartTLS connection. Preferably from your command-prompt.