[rekonq] Random Password Generation (for password fields)

[Jonathan Verner]

Hi Andrea,

sure, it was really only a quick hack/proof of concept and I am not too
attached to it :-). It has several shortcomings; overcoming them would have
involved much more time than I was willing to invest in this "hack".  I
have now looked at how other browsers do it:

Safari:
http://www.macworld.com/article/2058081/how-to-use-icloud-keychain.html(see
the Generate a password section)
Chrome:
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/design-documents/password-generation(in
development?)
Firefox: only through extensions (e.g.
https://addons.mozilla.org/cs/firefox/addon/secure-password-generator/)

I tend to like the Chrome approach, although discoverability is probably
not as good. The Safari approach (similar to my current one), doesn't allow
for pwd customization. What do you think? I don't have experience with UI
design and, obviously, I am not the right person to see the usability
shortcomings since I know pretty well what I want from the feature :-)

Or, of course, you might decide, that the feature is not worth the trouble
and I will keep using the command line utility pwgen (after all, it is not
such a big deal). Or I'll wait for extension support to arrive and then
write an extension :-)

Best,

Jonathan



2013/11/13 andrea diamantini <adjam7 at gmail.com>

> Hi Jonathan,
> I'm a bit unsure about this patch. While this surely solves your "special"
> case, what about the average user? I let my wife trying it and she couldn't
> understand the need for it and how it really woks. Perhaps she is a bit
> lower than average ;)
> I'd like to hear someone else opinion about.
>
>
> 2013/11/10 Jonathan Verner <jonathan.verner at matfyz.cz>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> for some time now, I have been using the pwgen utility to generate
>> random passwords for all the different web accounts I register.
>> While this works it would be much nicer to have this integrated into
>> the browser. So this past Saturday I sat down and implemented a
>> proof of concept integration for rekonq (see attached patch).
>>
>> My implementation adds a "Generate random password" context menu action
>> when
>> the menu is shown above a password input field. This action
>>
>>   1. generates a random password of length 20 chars
>>   2. fills in the password input field with the password
>>   3. iterates over all password fields in the same form
>>      and fills them with the password (since registration
>>      forms often have a confirm password field)
>>   4. copies the password to the clipboard
>>
>> The generator uses qrand to generate the passwords, which are
>> alphanumeric. It
>> tries to use /dev/urandom or, if not available, the number of milliseconds
>> since 1/1/1970 to seed the random number generator on first use.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jonathan Verner
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>
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