Una de las claves principales para proteger adecuadamente una red inalámbrica, aplicable a muchas otras áreas, es la utilización de una contraseña lo suficientemente robusta. Sin embargo, en ocasiones la tarea de generar este tipo de contraseñas puede resultar "pesada" o incluso complicada.

Existen servicios online (ver este artículo al respecto), que facilitan el trabajo, no obstante no se puede confiar plenamente en la privacidad y confidencialidad que ofrecen esos servicios online. 

Con objeto de evitar utilizar estos servicios os presento la herramienta de escritorio "Awesome Password Generator".

Descripción

Es una herramienta Open Source destinada a la generación automática y rápida de contraseñas, incluidos "contraseñas" especificas para la redes inalámbricas WPA.

WPA Automatic Password Generator

Las principales características son:

• Rápida generación de contraseñas de propósito general (email, cuentas online, etc)
• Generación de contraseñas especificas para WPA (PSK).
• Verificación de la "fuerza" que tiene la contraseña generada.
• Opciones de personalización.
• Función de "escritura" amigable (sencilla).

Requisitos del Sistema

• Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8
• .NET Framework 4.0

Descarga

agp1.2.0-setup.exe

Enlace a la página web de descargas (aquí).

Conclusión

Es un herramienta útil para generar automáticamente contraseñas robustas, no obstante con las recomendaciones de mi articulo "Make your Password Secure", se podría combinar las contraseñas que muestra la herramienta automáticamente con el factor creativo y recordable necesario para poder utilizar esas contraseñas habitualmente.

Por ejemplo: Construir una contraseña por tramos (partes) utilizando las recomendaciones del articulo (Make your Password Secure) y los resultados mostrados por la herramienta.

Recordar, que si "habilitáis" la opción - Easy type password - la contraseña es más ligeramente menos robusta. Y que se puede utilizar un conjunto de caracteres o palabras personalizadas y/o definidas.

Fuente | Awesome Password Generator Website

Today I'm gonna write about Qubes-OS, the amazing project that provide you a Strong Security Desktop (SSD). I'm wishing to try it out. 

This project can become in the Next Generation Security OS. Sincerely I will bet for that.

What is Qube?

Qubes is an open source operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop computing. Qubes is based on Xen, X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers. In the future it might also run Windows apps.

Architecture

Qubes implements Security by Isolation approach. To do this, Qubes utilizes virtualization technology, to be able to isolate various programs from each other, and even sandbox many system-level components, like networking or storage subsystem, so that their compromise don’t affect the integrity of the rest of the system.

Qubes lets the user define many security domains implemented as lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs), or “AppVMs”. E.g. user can have “personal”, “work”, “shopping”, “bank”, and “random” AppVMs and can use the applications from within those VMs just like if they were executing on the local machine, but at the same time they are well isolated from each other. Qubes supports secure copy-and-paste and file sharing between the AppVMs, of cours

Who doesn't want to try it out now?? I wanna try it out... so Where can I obtain it?

Screenshots: Amazing

In this example, the word processor runs in the “work” domain, which has been assigned “green” label, and is fully isolated from other domains, such as the “red” domain (assigned the “red” label -- “Watch out!”, “Danger!”) used for random Web browsing, news reading, etc. Apps from different domains run in different AppVMs and have different X servers, filesystems, etc. Notice the different color frames (labels), and VM names in the titlebar -- these are drawn by the trusted Window Manager running in Dom0 and apps running in domains cannot fake them.

Different Security AppVMs Domains.

This feature is one of my favorites:

All the networking runs in a special, unprivileged NetVM (notice the red frame around the NetworkManager dialog box on the screen bellow). Thanks to this, a potential compromise of your network card driver, or WiFi stack, or DHCP client, would not affect the integrity of the rest of the system! This feature requires Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU hardware (e.g. Core i5/i7 systems)

Network Managed in Insolation NetVM.

Downloading

The most important documentation about the project is store and share it in the following wiki system:  http://wiki.qubes-os.org/trac

The Installation guide provide all you need to know for install and prepare your equipment before start the configuration process.

You can download the ISO and the digital signature for the ISO from here:

•  http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/qubes-os/iso/Qubes-R1-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso
•  http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/qubes-os/iso/Qubes-R1-Beta2-x86_64-DVD.iso.asc

See this page for more info about how to download and verify our GPG keys. Then, verify the downloaded ISO:

gpg -v <iso>.asc

It's so important to know the System requeriments:

Minimum:

• 4GB of RAM
• 64-bit Intel or AMD processor (x86_64 aka x64 aka AMD64)
• Intel GPU strongly preferred (if you have Nvidia GPU, prepare for some troubleshooting; we haven't tested ATI hardware)
• 10GB of disk (Note that it is possible to install Qubes on an external USB disk, so that you can try it without sacrificing your current system. Mind, however, that USB disks are usually SLOW!)
• Fat SSD disk strongly recommended

Additional requirements:

• Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU technology (this is needed for effective isolation of your network VMs)

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How Can I install Qube-OS in an USB Stick? The response to this cuestion can be find out in the following guide.

This is all! Do you like this OS? I suppose that is yes! ...