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pauLee
10 months agoOccasional Contributor
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...
pauLee
10 months agoOccasional Contributor
Out of curiosity, was there a specific reason why you'd like to add more symbols?
I have already had password fields where a single point was not enough (in a 20 characters password) to fulfil the complexity requirements. Then I had to regenerate the password again or adjust it manually.
I don't wanna tell the generator how much special characters or numbers to use. I just think it would be useful to have a larger selection of special characters. Why not adding one switch to extend the special characters? Let people decide freely what their passwords should look like.
For me, generating a password is currently the point that takes the longest time. I regenerate 9 out of 10 passwords several times - that's annoying.