If you’ve got internet at home then you know that sometimes you might lose the internet for hours or for days in the worst case. Such problems do occur and if you need to send an important email to someone during this time then using a public computer at a nearby cyber cafe is the most likely option available.

But public computers are more prone to infections and could have spywares or keylogger software installed on them. Hence it’s important to ensure password security of your primary email account and make sure that it’s not stolen after you have typed it. KYPS is an application which helps you to do just that. It generates one time codes for your password which can be used for signing in to your email account.

It currently works with Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, WEB.DE, GMX and My Space. You can get from 40 to 200 unique codes for a single email account and each code is self destroyed after first time usage.

KYPS gives you two registration options - First, you can tell them your email user name and password and download a PDF file containing the codes. Then you can immediately delete your account. Of course you’ll have to trust KYPS here when they say that don’t store passwords. They also give elaborate explanations on the site to build that trust.

But if you still don’t trust them then you can just proceed the registration process without giving your password and then enter your password in a Java applet and instantly get the list of codes. Hence either way you can get the codes and use them to remove all possibilities of your password getting stolen at a public computer.