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doio
4 years agoOccasional Contributor
Generated Password Strength is weaker than even the website generator
I've always wondered why the password generator on 1Password 8 was weaker than its predecessor, or even than the website generator, https://1password.com/password-generator/ .
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Jack_P_1P
1Password Team
4 years agoHey doio:
Great question, and I'd like to apologize for the delayed response here.
So there's two pieces at play here. The first is as you've noticed, we've tweaked the symbol set of our new Smart Password Generator to only include [email protected]_*. We've found that these symbols are accepted in most places, and require less fiddling to ensure that your password is accepted by a service.
As for the second, would you mind elaborating on the use case for being able to view the entire password before it's saved in the password field itself?
Jack