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Safari: Provide the password assistant on web-account creation
The password assistant is a nice and easy to use feature of osx to create safe and rememberable passwords, but most users only see it while setting a user password.
On websites that require account creations it likely won't get used because
- Many user don't know that the password assistant exist
- Some user even just use the same password for everything
- The password assistant has to be opened from keychain for example, its not a standalone launchable app
- ...many users are lazy :)
Provide the password assistant on websites that require passwords to register and haven't already saved credentials. It could be shown/opened similar to the caps-lock warning in a password field for example.
Automatically detect the minimum/maximum allowed password lenght and allowed characters.
Show the "Quality" of the entered password.
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Problem with this solution: the password assistant shows the generated (not the typed) password in plain text so it mustn't be used in public/when the user is monitored. Still the password assistant is not only about generation, it also shows the "Quality" of the entered password.
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Flauchhaus wrote on August 25, 2009, 9:41am
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