Generate Random Password

An activity that generates a random password with various user given criteria.

The criteria for generating the password are:

• minimum and maximum length.
• required number of lowercase and uppercase letters.
• required number of digits.
• required number of special characters.

All length requirements have to be below 1000 characters. It utilizes System.Security.Cryptography.RNGCryptoServiceProvider for generating the random passwords with a 4 Byte seed.

Robots utilize service accounts to access a certain application, but due to security policies, the passwords have to be updated after a specific time. A new password will have to be generated with the specific criteria for the respective application. The password will then have to be updated on the Orchestrator for the respective Robot machine. This allows the Robot to maintain its password without involving the human factor.

Note: The functionalities are offered to allow robots to interact directly with existing business processes. They are not designed to provide new information security paradigms, but instead a means to allow the robot to interact with the existing security that is being deployed within a business.

Release 2.0:

• Listing is upgraded to work on Cross Platform, .NET 6 (Windows Projects) and also .NET 4.5.1 (Windows-Legacy).

This activities package facilitates password maintenance inside automation processes. Some processes require the Robots to generate new passwords when the old ones expire, so this is where the developers can make use of this activity.