JavaAlgorithms/Others/PasswordGen.java
2017-10-22 18:41:27 +05:30

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Java

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
/*
Creates a random password from ASCII letters
author: AKS1996
date: 2017-10-22
*/
class PasswordGen {
public static void main(String args[]){
Random random = new Random();
String upper = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
String lower = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
String numbers = "0123456789";
String specialChars = "!@#$%^&*(){}?";
String allChars = upper+lower+numbers+specialChars;
List<Character> letters = new ArrayList<Character>();
for(char c:allChars.toCharArray())
letters.add(c);
// Inbuilt method to randomly shuffle a elements of a list
Collections.shuffle(letters);
int min_length = 8;
int max_length = 16;
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()));
}
System.out.print("Password: " + password);
}
}