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Former Member
4 years ago

Auto fill random selection of chars from a secret

Hi several of my financial service co’s ask for username, password and then a selection of several characters from either a secret word/pass phrase or in one case a 2 dimensional matrix. So I would have a a box to enter say char 3, then another with char 5 etc. I can obviously generate a secure secret using 1Password. I have however been unable to find how I can get 1Password to auto fill the individual char boxes either in support or in the community.

Help much appreciated.

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3 Replies

  • BrendanR1P's avatar
    BrendanR1P
    Icon for 1Password Team rank1Password Team
    4 years ago

    Hi @cogarooni

    We're really glad to hear you find 1Password as a great solution.

    We hope you continue you enjoy using 1Password. 😀

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member
    4 years ago

    Thanks for your very helpful reply. Let's hope your team can solve it in the not too distant future. Anyway having used 1password for about 6 months now, I can't understand why it took me so long to adopt it - great solution from my perspective.

  • 1P_Timothy's avatar
    1P_Timothy
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    4 years ago

    Hi @cogarooni, thanks for your question!

    Filling specific characters from a password or secret phrase is not possible. From my understanding there are some technical challenges that would make this difficult. While I can't make any promises about the development of 1Password, I’ve shared your interest in such a feature with our product team for their consideration.

    With 1Password 8 apps most item fields can be viewed in large type with each character numbered similar to my example below:

    With 1Password 8 mobile apps you can also pin fields to the Home tab and set the default action to Show in Large Type for quick access to this information. I understand these options are not quite what you're looking for but I hope they can be helpful.

    Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks again!

    ref: IDEA-I-252