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Passwords best practices recommend using a strong and unique password for each of your online accounts. But in reality, very few people can follow this guidance. Dependence on memory and force of habit makes people use simple passwords and repeat them across accounts. However, this is a dangerous practice because even one compromised password can make you vulnerable on multiple websites.

When you open a web page that contains a sign-up form or a change password field, Microsoft Edge activates Password Generator. When you select the password field, Password Generator suggests a strong password in a drop-down menu.

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Password Generator requires you to be signed in and syncing passwords. If you're signed in but not syncing, you'll see the following setting in Settings and more > Settings > Profiles > Passwords:

The LastPass password generator creates random passwords based on parameters set by you. Parameters include password length, whether the password should be easy to say or read, and whether the password should have uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.

Yes. The LastPass password generator creates random, secure passwords based on the parameters defined by you. Any password generated is tested against the industry-standard zxcvbn library to determine how strong the password you generate is.

No. The browser and in-app password generator function the same. The only difference is that the in-app generator will also autofill and save the created password for you. Whereas with the online generator, you must copy your password and paste it into the necessary form field.

Thanks for asking! Currently the way to generate a new password would be through creating a new Password item in the 1Password app. I can definitely see how being able to quickly generate a password would be useful however, and I've added your input to an existing feature request we have on this.

Why was the password generator removed from the notification tray icon in Windows? Please please bring back the password generator option on right click of the 1Password notification tray icon. We all require passwords for many places/purposes that have nothing to do with web sites/browsing. It is totally unnecessary to have to open a web browser to get to the 1Password plugin/extension in order to create a number of passwords. Such a hassle.

Hi @Philipbm, thank you for letting us know that you'd like to have the password generator in Quick Access. I have submitted a vote on your behalf for our existing feature request on the issue. We appreciate your feedback!

I sincerely do not understand why features have been removed from v8. I too used the password generator feature a lot. Ironically today I created my 1Password Support Community account for the first time and when it asked for a password was when I realised this feature was missing. (ironic?) I understand the feature still exists if you create a new login (and the addition of a 'memorable' password is welcomed since I would often have to go to an external website for these) but when I'm creating a new account it's simply not convenient to have to first create this in 1Password just to be able to access the password generator facility.

That the password generator in the client is missing makes it a very painful experience, especially for cases where the Browser is not already opened (yes this still occurs) or the password gen from the browser extension is unable to copy the password to the global clipboard, for usecases like copying the password to another RDP session.

Right now I settled on opening the full client, creating a new password item, creating a new password in there, copying the password.

This is a very lengthy process, which lets any performance and usability improvements which were done back in v7 look like a joke.

What is with this trend of releasing a half-baked, Electron-based "upgrade" to an already working app? Evernote and 1password are two apps I rely on heavily, with ingrained workflows, and both have gone down this road.

Just moved to v8 and very disappointed to see no password generator. The development assumption that password generation is expressly linked to creation of a new item is faulty logic and inherently flawed. Many use cases exist for needing to do password generation outside of a created and maintained item. Please add the functionality back to the Windows app. If you're at a loss for how to invoke it, simply add a line for it in the "3-dots" root menu.

Here is what is required for Jack's earlier suggestion to use the app:

1. Click new item

2. Select a new item type

3. Move to the password field

4. Click on create new password

5. Accept and/or modify the password-generation parameters

6. Select the generated password

7. Copy the generated password

8. Try to close the "temporary" new item

9. Validate with 1P to discard changes (yet another click)

I also miss the frequently used password generator in the notification area and I appreciate if it comes back soon.

I wonder why one would spend extra working hours to remove a perfectly working feature. Using the browser addon or switching back to v7 are inconvenient for me.

Hello again folks, thanks for the additional feedback letting us know that you'd like to see the password generator appear back in-app in a manner other than through editing an item. As previously noted, the current best use of this feature is by using the password generator in 1Password in the browser. @brianglett, and @paxmundi, I've added you votes.

Thanks for chiming in here with your interest in seeing the password generator making a return to the app. We have no updates to provide, but I have included a +1 for you letting the product team know this is something you'd like see. ?

Oracle databases baulk at passwords containing the 'at' symbol (@).

Linux shells baulk at passwords containing the 'dollar' symbol ($). [I think, if not Linux, someplace else that I've encountered]

Just an FYI: The shells don't care about what characters are in your passwords. Rather, each shell has a set of meta-characters that must be properly escaped / quoted to protect them from being interpreted by the shell. Other characters that would be problematic without proper quoting, would be semicolon, dollar sign, single-, double-, or back-quote, vertical bar (pipe), and possibly asterisk and a few others depending on context. Proper quoting is up to any script writer interpreting user or program input and using it in such a way that the shell is interpreting such data.

Let me add my voice of disappointment about the disappearance of the password generator. I'm sorry, but I don't want to add something to my browser to do this. I just want what the previous version had: an option that was accessible via right-clicking the icon in the System Tray (Windows, obvs).

[UPDATE] I now see that I can generate a new password for an existing Login item by (1) visiting that item, (2) clicking Edit, (3) clicking in the password field, and (4) clicking Create New Password in the pop-up that appears.

I also noticed that I can more generally generate a new password by (1) clicking the three dots in the upper left corner, (2) Clicking New Item, (3) clicking Password, (4) clicking in the Password field, (5) clicking Create New Password in the pop-up that appears. After clicking the "Use" button, I can then copy that new generated password, and paste it where I need it. So, not as bad as I thought it was initially, but I still hope you'll bring back the option in the menu associated with the System Tray icon.

Hey @bjkeefe, thank you for your feedback. I'm glad to hear you've identified a way to generate a password within 1Password 8. I certainly understand this may not be ideal and I've added your voice to the internal request to bring back the item-independent password generator.

Imagine moving to 1password from LastPass (where this feature was even available RIGHT FROM the input field menu) having a brief moment using v7 where this feature was even weaker than in LastPass and then upgrading to v8 where it was REMOVED completely. I'll see how long I can live with this (before moving to bitwarden) but this if extremely disappointing. And I had to pay for this ...

Is this the price for the new UI (can't say it's better)?

I see that you can generate passwords when creating a new entry in the UI, but what I miss is the ability to just pop up the password generator tool outside of that, when all you need is a random password for something.

Are you referring to the password generator in the desktop app or the browser extension? As far as the desktop app goes, you're still able to generate a password by selecting New Item followed by Password. From there you can quickly generate a new password. If you're running the beta version of 1Password for your browser browser, click the 1Password icon in your browser toolbar followed by the key icon at the top right, which should open the Password Generator for you.

With PowerShell you have another better option: call GeneratePassword(int length, int numberOfNonAlphanumericCharacters). For example to generated a 12-character long password with at least 3 special symbols you can call it like this

.NET Core does not support System.Web.dll so it doesn't have [System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword() and you'll have to write a custom a password generator or find some available code on the internet. Here's one in Password generation in PowerShell Core (6+)

A long time ago I wrote a password generator, it allowed me to generate passwords with higher entropy than %random% (since %random% is not actually random at all) and of any length on Windows, it also allows to save passwords to a file with a reference for each password, so in theory you can keep that file on a external drive for easy reference and added security.

I am currently adding password safe symbols in a 2.0 version - but 1.0c is available now, works locally, and does not require the Internet. It is a command-line tool, no GUI but that shouldn't be an issue. I posted the source code and several precompiled platform executables. Hopefully someone else benefits from this as I wanted one long enough I eventually wrote it myself. ff782bc1db