Getting Qualified Passwords for Admiral
Password requirements of the website
- Password must be eight or more characters (As mentioned before, we set the password length to 12 for security.)
- At least one number
- Not a percentage(%) character
Each password manager gets ten stars at the beginning and has ten times to generate suitable passwords. They will lose one star for one unqualified password, two stars for two unqualified passwords, and so on. They might also lose extra stars due to its inconvenient setting.
Bitwarden: 2 stars
It lost 8 stars (6 stars for 6 failures and 2 stars for its unfriendly setting).
Annoying to drag the thumb of the seekbar (lost 1 star here)
It was annoying to drag the thumb of the seekbar to the 12 exactly.
Need to check passwords carefully (lost 1 star here)
Users couldn’t forbid using the specific character(%), resulting in three failures in generating suitable passwords. And thus, it is necessary to check the passwords carefully to know whether they suit the website.
Enpass: 7 stars
It lost 3 stars (3 stars for its unfriendly setting).
Annoying to drag the thumb of the seekbar (lost 1 star here)
It was annoying to drag the thumb of the seekbar to the 12 exactly( that’s why it lost 1 star).
Too many steps to generate suitable passwords (lost 1 star here)
Tap ”+” and “passwords”, then enter the login name, choose the field type and enter the URL. Next, go back to the adding page, begin to generate a password, and choose a suitable password. Finally, save the passwords.
Inconvenient to enter the specific special symbols(lost 1 star here)
The video below shows that it is time-consuming for users to enter the symbol(%) by typing themselves.
LastPass: 5 stars
It lost 5 stars(2 stars for 2 failures and 3 stars for its unfriendly setting).
Annoying to drag the thumb of the seeker bar(lost 1 star here)
Users first needed to change the password length to 12.
Check passwords carefully (lost 1 star here)
Because we can only see three special characters on the password generator page, we needed to check special characters in passwords carefully to know whether they are suitable for the website.
Inconvenient to save an account quickly for ten steps (lose 1 star here)
First tap ”add”, “passwords”, “add new passwords”, “name “, then click passwords and open the generating password page, next generate passwords, next tap “done” , “use this password”, and finally “save” it.
KeePassium: 7 stars
It lost 3 stars(for its unfriendly setting).
Need to change the mode from “Basic” to “Expert”(lost 1 star here)
Otherwise users couldn’t change the passwords options.
Annoying to drag the thumb of the seeker bar(lost 1 star here)
Time-consuming to type the specific characters(lost 1 star here)
KeePassium allows users to exclude specific characters via users entering by themselves. It takes users more time to type it. Meanwhile, users need more attention to reading all the options provided by Keepassium, including *, ✔️, ➖.
KeePass DX: 7 stars
It lost 3 stars (for its unfriendly setting).
Typing the excluded characters into the box of ignore characters (lost 1 star here)
Choosing “at least one character from each” (lost 1 star here)
Users needed to choose the option of “at least one character from each”; otherwise, it might fail to create qualified passwords even having selected the appropriate options.
Making the passwords readable(lost 1 star here)
Users could not read the passwords if they forgot to tape an eye icon near the password. The passwords were shown in dots by default.
It lost 3 stars (for its unfriendly setting).
The same situation (in KeePass DX) can be seen in KeePass XC, so it also lost 3 stars for these unfriendly settings.
Zero password manager: 10 stars
It got 10 stars.
Unlike previous password managers, Zero password manager allowed users to easily exclude the special characters (%) by clicking the character.