Can generate 4-PIN or 6-PIN code
As mentioned before, it is necessary for password generators to generate passwords with mixed letters, numbers, and digits. Stars were given from two aspects:
Can the password generators generate passwords with mixed letters, numbers, and digits?
Is it easy for users to choose the composition of passwords?
Now, let’s look at these password generators one by one.
Next, lets’ look at them one by one.
Bitwarden: 5 stars
From the assessment of “Password length“, we knew that Bitwarden couldn’t make passwords with four digits. Therefore it lost five scores here. But it allows the generation of 6-digit passwords. Users first need to change the password length, then choose numbers (0-9) only.
Enpass: 8 stars
Enpass could generate 4-digit or 6-digit passwords. However, the process was more challenging than we thought. As usual, we changed the length to 4 and chose the composition (digits). To our surprise, the password consisted of two numbers and two letters(2s8r) instead of all numbers.
To achieve it, we needed to click “more options” and have more settings: choose the exact number of digits. Finally, we got the digit-only password, 3835. To have 6-digit passwords, we repeated the whole process. Enpass could generate perfect four-digit passwords but with more steps. Therefore, it only got 8.
LastPass: 0
From the assessment of ” Password length“, it was clear that LastPass couldn’t generate passwords under 8 characters. So it got 0.
KeePassium: 8 stars
KeePassium also allowed the generation of 4PIN or 6PIN passwords. Users needed to follow the steps below.
Change mode from basic to expert
Change the password length (by pulling the length bar)
Turn off other options ( the number of alternatives depends on the user setting for previous passwords. )
It needed to do more settings; therefore, it only got 8 stars here.
KeePass DX: 9 stars
Things that needed to do :
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Change the password length to 4 or 6.
( What interests me is that users can enter the number directly, making it more convenient to change the password length.)
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Turn off other options ( the number of alternatives depends on the user setting for previous passwords. )
It got nine because users need to delete the previous digits of the password length first and then enter the new number.
KeePass XC: 9 stars
Similar steps to KeePass DX-
Change the password length to 4, or 6 stars(Users can choose to enter the number directly, making it more convenient for users to change the password length.)
Turn off other options (the number of other options depends on the users setting for previous passwords. )
Zero Password Manager: 9 stars
By default, passwords by Zero Password Manager consisted of 12 characters, including numbers and letters (shown below).To generate 4 PIN or 4 PIN passwords, users needed one click to turn off the option of “Letter” and changed the password length.
It would be annoying to change it from 12 to 4. Tapping 8 times on minus button is a little bit boring, but not challenging at all.
Therefore, it got 9 stars here.