Getting Qualified Passwords for BDO

Password requirements of the website(BDO)

Please nominate a password that contains UPPERCASE, lowercase, numbers, and symbols.
The password should not be the same as the user ID.
Avoid using consecutive characters such (ex. abc, DEF, 678)
Avoid invalid characters such as [!#$%^&’;”].

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.

Setting process of each password managers

Bitwarden: 0 star

It lost 11 stars (9 stars for 9 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 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 was necessary to check the passwords carefully to know whether they suit the website.

Unfortunately, most special characters in Bitwarden were considered invalid for BDO. As a result, there was only one qualified password.

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).
Inconvenient to enter the specific special symbols(lost 1 star here)

We excluded the invalid characters listed by the website by typing ourselve, which was very time-consuming.
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.

LastPass: 0 star

It lost 10 stars (7 stars for 7 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 the special characters in passwords carefully to know whether they were suitable for the website. Meanwhile, it caused 7 unqualified passwords since users were not allowed to exclude or include some special characters.
Inconvenient to save an account quickly for ten steps (lose 1 star here).
It needs ten steps to save an account. 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: 8 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)
Users first needed to change the password length to 12.
Time-consuming to type the specific characters(lost 1 star here)
KeePassium allowed users to exclude specific characters by entering the characters. It took more time to type the particular characters.
We first chose the choice of special characters, then clicked the box “exclude” and then typed the invalid special characters listed by the website (like @, #) (see picture). Therefore it lost 1 star for these unfriendly settings.

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.

So it lost 3 stars for these unfriendly settings.

It got ten qualified passwords.

KeePass XC: 7 stars

It lost 3 stars (for its unfriendly setting).

The same situation (in KeePass DX) can be seen in KeePass XC.

Zero password manager: 10 stars

It got 10 stars.

Unlike previous password managers, Zero password manager allowed users to easily exclude or include specific characters by clicking the character. We cleared all the default special characters to have suitable passwords and then included some valid characters. By doing this, we could get qualified passwords everytime