Quick Start

The Quick Start section gives you a quick and simple view of the application Interface. A glance through this section will give you a fair amount of training on the usage of Cynapse SafeKeys v1.0. Click on the window area to get help on the functioning of the respective window.

Applying A Format Mask:

The format mask is a useful feature that permits you to specify a particular format for the passwords to be generated. The format is specified with the help of character masks (?,*).
? - Character mask for a single character.
* - Character mask for one or more characters.
E.g. A format mask "Cyn?A*Pse" would replace the character mask '?' with a single character and the '*' mask will be replaced by x characters calculated from the desired password length. If the password length specified is 15 chars the '*' would be replaced by 15 - Length(Cyn?APse) = 7 characters.

Note: The minimum number of characters that can be generated is three.
A format mask that requires less than 3 characters to be generated is considered an invalid format and passwords are generated with the password length specification.
SafeKeys will intelligently correct an invalid number of special character mix in the format mask.

Examples of a few invalid formats:
"Cyn??": requires generation of 2 characters only, hence invalid
"Cyn?A*Pse and password length = 9": requires generation of 1 character, hence invalid.

Generating Passwords:

SafeKeys require the user to enter specifications on the passwords to be generated. A set of default specifications is set by the application for the first time. Any changes made to these specifications are remembered and applied on further runs of the application. Click on "Generate Password(s)" after entering the password specifications.

Based on the specifications and number of passwords, SafeKeys generates unique passwords and displays the passwords in a list.

The generated passwords can now be exported to a file or copied to the Clipboard.

Copying Passwords to Clipboard:

After generating passwords the user can copy these password to the clipboard. The user needs to select the passwords to be copied and then click on the "Copy" button or click "Copy Selected Passwords to the Clipboard" in the Edit menu.

The selected passwords can now be pasted into any Text Editor.

Exporting Passwords to a File:

After generating passwords the user can export these passwords to a file. The user needs to click on the "Export" button or click "Export to File" in the File menu.

This brings up the File Dialog. SafeKeys supports two file extensions, namely Text Files and Comma Separated Values Files.

Enter the name of the file in which to store the passwords and then click the "Open" button. This saves the passwords to the specified file.