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Generating long, high-quality random passwords is
not simple.  So here is some totally random raw
material, generated just for YOU, to start with.

Every time this page is displayed, our server generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use:

64 random hexadecimal characters (0-9 and A-F):
540B1F3FCEB0DD6B6FC9BF1791AB1466DACE76BFC8318AABC110FE63E1A86762
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63 random printable ASCII characters:
QuF>(RY^c)qCIz$Ya(aM(&}u<;}OS=B%>(@F"!L>jp`w\}99Cvrn0uX%;<d)sJl
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63 random alpha-numeric characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9):
fh3ijzohBoAsD2J6zAodbZxdTUCbNXQ6xPefzuy7O4v4qAg5IBu3KuBVJltY0L1
Click your web browser's "refresh" button a few times and watch the password strings change each time.

What makes these perfect and safe?
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Every one is completely random (maximum entropy) without any pattern, and the cryptographically-strong pseudo random number generator we use guarantees that no similar strings will ever be produced again.

Also, because this page will only allow itself to be displayed over a snoop-proof and proxy-proof high-security SSL connection, and it is marked as having expired back in 1999, this page which was custom generated just now for you will not be cached or visible to anyone else.

Therefore, these password strings are just for you. No one else can ever see them or get them. You may safely take these strings as they are, or use chunks from several to build your own if you prefer, or do whatever you want with them. Each set displayed are totally, uniquely yours — forever.

The "Application Notes" section below discusses various aspects of using these random passwords for locking down wireless WEP and WPA networks, for use as VPN shared secrets, as well as for other purposes.

The "Techie Details" section at the end describes exactly how these super-strong maximum-entropy passwords are generated (to satisfy the uber-geek inside you).


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Application Notes:

A note about "random" and "pseudo-random" terminology:
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Throughout this page I use the shorthand term "random" instead of the longer but more precise term "pseudo-random". I use the output of this page — myself — for any purpose, without hesitation, any time I need a chunk of randomness because there is no better place to find anything more trusted, random and safe. The "pseudo-randomness" of these numbers does not make them any less good.

There are ways to generate absolutely random numbers, but computer algorithms cannot be used for that, since, by definition, no deterministic mathematical algorithm can generate a random result. Electrical and mechanical noise found in chaotic physical systems can be tapped and used as a source of true randomness, but this is much more than is needed for our purposes here. High quality algorithms are sufficient.

The deterministic binary noise generated by my server, which is then converted into various displayable formats, is derived from the highest quality mathematical pseudo-random algorithms known. In other words, these password strings are as random as anything non-random can be.

This page's password "raw material":
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The raw password material is provided in several formats to support its use in many different applications. Each of the password strings on the page is generated independently of every other, based upon its own unique pseudo-random binary data. So there is no underlying similarity in the data among the various format passwords.

nhl 09 mods 64 hex characters  =  256 binary bits:
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1087D9C62C19BE961738D95B8B650EE49A83C5C2C26CFBBD3CECB18B234E1F95
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Each of the 64 hexadecimal characters encodes 4 bits of binary data, so the entire 64 characters is equivalent to 256 binary bits — which is the actual binary key length used by the WiFi WPA pre-shared key (PSK). Some WPA-PSK user interfaces (such as the one in Windows XP) allows the 256-bit WPA pre-shared key to be directly provided as 64 hexadecimal characters. This is a precise means for supplying the WPA keying material, but it is ONLY useful if ALL of the devices in a WPA-protected WiFi network allow the 256-bit keying material to be specified as raw hex. If any device did not support this mode of specification (and most do not) it would not be able to join the network.

Using fewer hex characters for WEP encryption:
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If some of your WiFi network cannot support the newer and much stronger (effectively unbreakable when used with maximum-entropy keys like these) WPA encryption system, you'll be forced either to run two WiFi networks in parallel (which is totally feasible — one super-secure and one at lower security) or to downgrade your entire network to weaker WEP encryption. Still, ANY encryption is better than no encryption.

WEP key strength (key length) is sometimes confusing because, although there are only two widely accepted standard lengths, 40-bit and 104-bit, those lengths are sometimes confused by adding the 24-bit IV (initialization vector) counter to the length, resulting in 64-bit and 128-bit total key lengths.

However, the user only ever specifies a key of either 40 or 104 binary bits. Since WEP keys should always be specified in their hexadecimal form to guarantee device interaction, and since each hex digit represents 4 binary bits of the key, 40 and 104 bit keys are represented by 10 and 26 hex digits respectively. So you may simply snip off whatever length of random hex characters you require for your system's WEP key.

Note that if all of your equipment supports the use of the new longer 256/232 bit WEP keys, you would use 232/4 or 58 hexadecimal characters for your pre-shared key.


nhl 09 mods 63 printable ASCII characters hashed down to 256 binary bits:
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\$AI9BZ!Aq6MF!<aX8Lbs5Fc;;/eymFi'&DiEWNcJ8X*@V/ZtBk>?@QtO1OLLzU
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The more "standard" means for specifying the 256-bits of WPA keying material is for the user to specify a string of up to 63 printable ASCII characters. This string is then "hashed" along with the network's SSID designation to form a cryptographically strong 256-bit result which is then used by all devices within the WPA-secured WiFi network. (The ASCII character set was updated to remove SPACE characters since a number of WPA devices were not handling spaces as they should.)


nhl 09 mods The 63 alphanumeric-only character subset:
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LDMwZa5AQ4icqZ5OG4YOpxJY4GBAWydpFmB6B5MxMiTAYE5UEgQJjoSvqO7aHzI
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If some device was not following the WiFi Alliance WPA specification by not hashing the entire printable ASCII character set correctly, it would end up with a different 256-bit hash result than devices that correctly obeyed the specification. It would then be unable to connect to any network that uses the full range of printable ASCII characters.

Since we have heard unconfirmed anecdotal reports of such non-compliant WPA devices (and since you might have one), this page also offers "junior" WPA password strings using only the "easy" ASCII characters which even any non-fully-specification-compliant device would have to be able to properly handle. If you find that using the full random ASCII character set within your WPA-PSK protected WiFi network causes one of your devices to be unable to connect to your WPA protected access point, you can downgrade your WPA network to "easy ASCII" by using one of these easy keys.

And don't worry for a moment about using an easy ASCII key. If you still use a full-length 63 character key, your entire network will still be EXTREMELY secure. And PLEASE drop us a line to let us know that you have such a device and what it is!


nhl 09 mods Shorter pieces are random too:
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A beneficial property of these maximum entropy pseudo-random passwords is their lack of "inter-symbol memory." This means that in a string of symbols, any of the possible password symbols is equally likely to occur next. This is important if your application requires you to use shorter password strings. Any "sub-string" of symbols will be just as random and high quality as any other.


nhl 09 mods When does size matter?
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The use of these maximum-entropy passwords minimizes (essentially zeroes) the likelihood of successful "dictionary attacks" since these passwords won't appear in any dictionary. So you should always try to use passwords like these.

When these passwords are used to generate pre-shared keys for protecting WPA WiFi and VPN networks, the only known attack is the use of "brute force" — trying every possible password combination. Brute force attackers hope that the network's designer (you) were lazy and used a shorter password for "convenience". So they start by trying all one-character passwords, then two-character, then three and so on, working their way up toward longer random passwords.

Since the passwords used to generate pre-shared keys are configured into the network only once, and do not need to be entered by their users every time, the best practice is to use the longest possible password and never worry about your password security again.

Note that while this "the longer the better" rule of thumb is always true, long passwords won't protect legacy WEP-protected networks due to well known and readily exploited weaknesses in the WEP keying system and its misuse of WEP's RC4 encryption. With WEP protection, even a highly random maximum-entropy key can be cracked in a few hours. (Listen to Security Now! episode #11 for the full story on cracking WEP security.)


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The Techie Details:

Since its introduction, this Perfect Passwords page has generated a great deal of interest. A number of people have wished to duplicate this page on their own sites, and others have wanted to know exactly how these super-strong and guaranteed-to-be-unique never repeating passwords are generated. The following diagram and discussion provides full disclosure of the pseudo-random number generating algorithm I employed to create the passwords on this page:


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While the diagram above might at first seem a bit confusing, it is a common and well understood configuration of standard cryptographic elements. A succinct written description of the algorithm would read: "Rijndael (AES) block encryption of never-repeating counter values in CBC mode."

CBC stands for "Cipher Block Chaining" and, as I describe in detail in the second half of Security Now! Episode #107, CBC provides necessary security in situations where some repetition or predictability of the "plaintext" message is present. Since the "plaintext" in this instance is a large 128-bit steadily-increasing (monotonic) counter value (which gives us our guaranteed never-to-repeat property, but is also extremely predictable) we need to scramble it so that the value being encrypted cannot be predicted. This is what "CBC" does: As the diagram above shows, the output from the previous encryption operation is "fed back" and XOR-mixed with the incrementing counter value. This prevents the possibility of determining the secret key by analysing successive counter encryption results.

One last detail: Since there is no "output from the previous encryption" to be used during the encryption of the first block, the switch shown in the diagram above is used to supply a 128-bit "Initialization Vector" (which is just 128-bits of secret random data) for the XOR-mixing of the first counter value. Thus, the first encryption is performed on a mixture of the 128-bit counter and the "Initialization Vector" value, and subsequent encryptions are performed on the mixture of the incrementing counter and the previous encrypted result.

The result of the combination of the 256-bit Rijndael/AES secret key, the unknowable (therefore secret) present value of the 128-bit monotonically incrementing counter, and the 128-bit secret Initialization Vector (IV) is 512-bits of secret data providing extremely high security for the generation of this page's "perfect passwords". No one is going to figure out what passwords you have just received.

How much security do 512 binary bits provide? Well, 2^512 (2 raised to the power of 512) is the total number of possible combinations of those 512 binary bits — every single bit of which actively participates in determining this page's successive password sequence. 2^512 is approximately equal to: 1.34078079 x 10^154, which is this rather amazing number:
 13, 407, 807, 929, 942, 597, 099, 574, 024, 998, 205,
846, 127, 479, 365, 820, 592, 393, 377, 723, 561, 443,
721, 764, 030, 073, 546, 976, 801, 874, 298, 166, 903,
427, 690, 031, 858, 186, 486, 050, 853, 753, 882, 811,
946, 569, 946, 433, 649, 060, 084, 096
As far as the crypto experts know, the only workable "attack" on the Rijndael (AES) cipher lying at the heart of this system is "brute force" — which means trying each one of those many combinations of 512 bits. In other words, the passwords being generated by GRC's server and presented for your exclusive use on this page, are safe.

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: Place db.bh and db.viv into the NHL 09/db folder.

. Because Electronic Arts stopped releasing its flagship hockey franchise on Windows after 2008, the PC modding scene became the only avenue for PC gamers to experience modern hockey. Dedicated modding networks like Splinterice and the WasserLasser Forums continually maintain the title. These sites transform a decades-old game into a contemporary simulation complete with current-season rosters. The Evolution of NHL 09 Modding

In Windows 10/11, it is highly recommended to run NHL09.exe as an administrator to ensure mods load correctly. Key Modding Resources in 2026

Channels like the ones that posted this 2026 gameplay and this 2024 playthrough often provide download links in their descriptions.

Modding NHL 09 requires precision. Always back up your clean, unmodded game files before attempting any installations. Step 1: Secure a Clean Installation nhl 09 mods

Released in 2008 by EA Sports, is widely considered one of the greatest hockey video games ever made. It introduced the revolutionary "Be A Pro" mode and refined the gameplay mechanics to a level of satisfaction that, for many fans, subsequent sequels failed to replicate.

The NHL 09 modding community has produced several massive overhauls. These are the must-have mods that turn the 2008 game into a 2025 simulator.

– Extract and repack .big archives (where game assets live).

While specific installation steps vary by mod, the general workflow for updating NHL 09 remains consistent. : Place db

Right-click on the nhl2009.exe file, navigate to , and go to the Compatibility tab. Check the box to Run this program as an administrator and set the compatibility mode to Windows XP (Service Pack 3) or Windows 7 . This prevents modern Windows operating systems from crashing the legacy engine. Step 3: Utilize the NHLBH Import Tool

The primary reason the community sticks with NHL 09 is . Many purists argue that the "twitch" gameplay, checking mechanics, and puck physics of NHL 09 feel more organic and less scripted than the modern Frostbite-engine EA titles (NHL 22/23/24).

Roster files usually come as a database folder ( db ) or a specific exhibition save file. Drop these into your Documents\NHL 09 folder. Step 4: Import Graphic and Audio Addons

Excellent for European leagues, utility tools, and core graphical updates. Key Modding Resources in 2026 Channels like the

NHL 09 was built for 4:3 monitors. Playing on a modern 16:9 monitor results in a distorted, stretched image. Widescreen patches modify the executable to support modern resolutions (1080p, 1440p, 4K), making the game look sharp on modern hardware.

was the final EA hockey title released for PC, a dedicated modding community has kept the game alive for over 15 years

The puck bounced to the corner. Wayne Gretzky—the digital version—skated after it. Jake checked him into the boards. It was a simple collision animation, a standard interaction in the game engine, but the context made it thrilling. He wasn't playing a generic hockey game anymore. He was rewriting history.

Archives of older mods, specific jersey packs, and historical rosters.

He passed to a young Mats Sundin on the wing. The commentator, Gary Thorne (restored via a sound mod), shouted, "Sundin! Looking for room!"

The most popular and vital mods for NHL 09 are roster updates. These mods bring the game's players, ratings, and lineups into the modern era.

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