Personalized Password Generator

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Inspiration

A few weeks ago, my friend Dylan and I were brainstorming possible ideas of programs to make for the Hackathon. I suddenly was struck by the idea of a program that used words and numbers significant to you to generate a password, making it randomized but hard to guess at the same time. Dylan and our other team members liked the idea, so we decided to go with it.

What it does

The PPG takes words and numbers that are easy for you to remember, such as your age or your city of birth, and runs them through several different randomly selected functions that make each password different and secure.

How we built it

We used the python module Kivy to build the GUI and programmed the logic deciding the passwords in python as well.

Challenges we ran into

Adding in different degrees of randomness was more difficult than we expected, but we came up with a solution in the end. For several hours the GUI wasn't working as intended but thanks to some advice from fellow programmers we solved the problem with plenty of time to spare.