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finwe
Super Contributor
2 years ago

20character random password marked as Terrible

A password in an item created with use of the CLI interface, which is random, contains upper-lower-case-numbers, and is still marked as Terrible in the UI and as Weak in Watchtower. Yes, it was no...
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GreyM1P
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2 years ago

Hi there finwe

As I mentioned in that thread, there's a weighting applied to the strength of a password based on whether or not it was generated in 1Password. If it came from elsewhere, 1Password doesn't know how truly random that password is.

In short, no matter where you generate a password (outside of 1Password), if you paste or type a password into the Password field, it won't be considered strong, and this is by design. If you're sure that it is strong, you can dismiss the Watchtower banner on that item.

With that in mind, did you use the 1Password CLI (op) to generate the password or use some output from /dev/urandom?

— Grey