package Others; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.Random; import java.util.List; import java.util.ArrayList; /** * Creates a random password from ASCII letters * Given password length bounds * * @author AKS1996 * @date 2017.10.25 */ class PasswordGen { public static void main(String args[]) { String password = generatePassword(8, 16); System.out.print("Password: " + password); } static String generatePassword(int min_length, int max_length) { Random random = new Random(); String upper = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; String lower = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; String numbers = "0123456789"; String specialChars = "!@#$%^&*(){}?"; String allChars = upper + lower + numbers + specialChars; List letters = new ArrayList(); for (char c : allChars.toCharArray()) letters.add(c); // Inbuilt method to randomly shuffle a elements of a list Collections.shuffle(letters); String password = ""; // Note that size of the password is also random for (int i = random.nextInt(max_length - min_length) + min_length; i > 0; --i) { password += letters.get(random.nextInt(letters.size())); } return password; } }