Password limited to 7 characters

[dreadirester@…]

Magic Password is currently only supplying 7 character passwords and some sites are now requiring 8 characters. It would be nice to have an option for password character length.

[t-bone]

This is an unfortunate flaw in the original design of the password generation mechanism.

However, if it were ever to change, it becomes much more difficult to manage -- all the sites that have an "old scheme" password take special effort to log in to. Plus the bookmarklet and page form tools (see wiki page) stop working.

I'll leave this ticket open to consider it, but chances are very slim that it will ever change.

[mattijs]

Replying to t-bone:

I'll leave this ticket open to consider it, but chances are very slim that it will ever change.

This 'unfortunate flaw' is the sole reason I'm not using this add-on. Not only does it only generate numeric+lowercase 7 character passwords (thus not meeting password complexity rules for many sites!), It also generates fairly weak passwords. Bruteforcing a 7 char numeric+lowercase password is easy.

I would consider using this add-on if I where able to set a password length (maybe remember this per site?) and a character set (lower, upper, numeric, special).

Cheers, matt.

[chief_sinner@…]

Replying to t-bone:

This is an unfortunate flaw in the original design of the password generation mechanism. However, if it were ever to change, it becomes much more difficult to manage -- all the sites that have an "old scheme" password take special effort to log in to. Plus the bookmarklet and page form tools (see wiki page) stop working. I'll leave this ticket open to consider it, but chances are very slim that it will ever change.

I dislike 'me too', but me too. Weak passwords.

[tmim]

you could use something like

function biggerHash(hashFunction, string, repCount){ 
	undefined==repCount?repCount=2:false;
	var str=""; 
	for(var i=0; i<repCount; i++){ 
		str+=hashFunction((i!=0?i:"")+string, hashArg) 
	} 
	return str;
}

to extend the length of the password and make so that if the toolbar button was pressed, it makes a long password, but if the password field is right clicked, it uses the short one

[anonymous]

Replying to dreadirester@…:

Magic Password is currently only supplying 7 character passwords and some sites are now requiring 8 characters. It would be nice to have an option for password character length.

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