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pauLee
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

Too few and too simple special characters for random passwords

To me it feels like 1PW generates random passwords with too few and too simple special characters ... using a 32 characters I see often ony 2 or 3 special characters. And when special characters a...
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1P_Dave
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2 years ago

Hello pauLee! 👋

Thank you for the question! A few years ago we changed the set of symbols that the password generator in the 1Password app uses so that generated passwords were compatible with the majority of websites. A lot of websites don't support the expanded set of symbols and users were running into an issue where the passwords generated by 1Password were being rejected because of an included symbol. The symbols that are now included in the generated passwords are supported by most websites which lessens the risk of a generated password being rejected by a website.

The password generator on our website uses a version of our code that does yet include the new reduced set of symbols which explains why you're still seeing the symbols there.

I hope that helps. 🙂

-Dave