As stupid as it is, some websites still have very low “max character” values. Can we please add either a simple dynamic character counter so we can see how long the current generated passphrase is or for bonus points, add a Max Passphrase Length field. Hell, if we’re going for bonus points, set the special characters to be a number field too so I can say 2 special characters, since that’s another one they require occasionally.
Thanks!
Eric.
This would be very helpful. I will hit the generator a lot of time just to get a max 20 passphrase. A lot of sites seems to maximise on 20 characters. Which is difficult with the number of large words in the list.
It does not matter how many words there are in the passphrase it matters how many characters there are in the passphrase
also initially requested here: Make the passphrase generator use shorter words
Feel free to ping if you want this feature request reopened.
Different sites have different requirements for passwords, some of them have character limits. It would be interesting if the passphrase generator contained an option to control the character count instead of number of words.
This issue has already been highlighted at Request: Passphrase Generator dynamic character counter by @heavyboots and was later closed by @bw-admin without further comments.
As mentioned by @Pat-Rick on the aforementioned thread
Having that in mind, it’d be more appealing for users to have a generator that “chooses” the number of words. The generator could simply add words until the limit is reached and scrap the word out of bounds. Further entropy could be achieved by filling the remaining space with numbers or special characters at word bounds.
Let’s say I want a 32 character passphrase:
We generate words and their separators until we get a string of size greater than 32. Let’s say we do that until we get empirical-ebook-unvented-deviancy, which has 33 chars. Removing the last word we get empirical-ebook-unvented, now we only have 24 chars, meaning we need 8 more characters to reach our goal. If we count the separator, we now require a word with 7 characters or fewer. Randomly picking a word, we get ranch which has only 5 chars, getting us empirical-ebook-unvented-ranch. This is good, but we are still missing two chars.
Now we need to fill in the remaining space, let’s roll dice! For each new character – which could 0-9 or a special character from the password char set – we currently have four different words it could be appended to. Having done that, we’ll have something like empirical5-ebook-unvented@-ranch, which has exactly 32 characters just as we wanted!
@liz_space Welcome to the forum!
The “older” Feature Request you mentioned is now re-opened and I moved your post into it.
It would be useful for me!