24 character password generator

Made on your device. Never sent or stored.

A random 24 character password, generated on your device. Change the character types below; the length stays at 24 unless you move it.

Is 24 characters long enough?

Twenty-four characters gives about 155 bits. There is no attack on this length; it simply exceeds any search an attacker could run.

When to use it: For service accounts, database users and shared secrets that are pasted, not typed.

How strong is a 24 character password?

A random 24 character password from letters and digits has 142.9 bits of entropy. With symbols added it has 154.6. Here is how that translates into guessing time for each character set.

24 characters. Average time to guess: fast hash at 10 billion guesses a second, slow hash (bcrypt or Argon2) at 10,000.
CharactersPoolBitsFast hashSlow hash
Digits only1079.72 million years2 trillion years
Lowercase letters26112.814 quadrillion yearsover 1022 years
Letters, both cases52136.8over 1023 yearsover 1029 years
Letters and digits62142.9over 1025 yearsover 1031 years
All four types (this site)87154.6over 1028 yearsover 1034 years

These figures only hold for random passwords like the ones above. A 24 character password you made up, with words, names or dates, is guessed far sooner. Test one with the strength checker.

Questions

How many combinations does a 24 character password have?

With the 87 characters used here, 87 to the power 24, about 1046. With letters and digits only, 62 to the power 24, about 1043.

Is this password stored anywhere?

No. It is generated in your browser with the Web Crypto API and never sent to a server.

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