macOS Utility

Arcana

Strong password generation made easy.

A secure and memorable password generator utility for macOS.

Download Utility v1.0 • macOS Free Download
Compatible with macOS / OS X

Arcana is a small utility designed to help you generate secure and memorable passwords easily.

Arcana generates passwords based on a combination of dictionary words, numbers, and punctuation. In order to do this, Arcana uses a format specified as a set of numbers and letters separated by commas.

Aren’t passwords containing dictionary words easy to crack?

Not necessarily. If a sufficiently long and complex password is used, even a brute-force attack would take so long to achieve that the attacker would give up before succeeding.

Arcana’s goal is to use this fact to generate a password which is memorable but still strong because it contains a random assortment of words which will generally be joined by equally random numbers and punctuation.

If you find number sequences easy to remember, Arcana can also be used to create a password containing only numbers. Equally, Arcana can create a password containing only dictionary words or punctuation, but for most people, these aren’t as memorable as a combination of all three.