Getting Qualified Passwords for Bloomingdale’s
Password requirements of the website(Bloomingdale’s)
Mixed letters(uppercase or lowercase letters/digits)
7-16 letters
Cannot contain spaces or . -｜/= _
Setting process of each password managers
Bitwarden: 8 stars
It lost 2 stars (2 stars for its unfriendly setting).
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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.
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Need to check passwords carefully (lost 1 star here)
Users couldn’t forbid using the specific character(. -｜/= _). And thus, it was necessary to check the passwords carefully to know whether they suit the website.
Luckily, most special characters in Bitwarden were regarded as valid by Bloomingdale’s. As a result, there were ten qualified passwords!
Enpass: 7 stars
It lost 3 stars ( 3 stars for its unfriendly setting).
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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.
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Inconvenient to enter the specific special symbols(lost 1 star here)
To meet the website requirements, we excluded invalid symbols listed by the website(see the screenshot below) and got 10 suitable passwords. But it was inconvenient for us to type the specific symbols by themselves. Meanwhile we failed to enter the special character (|) into the box.
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Inconvenient to save an account quickly with nine steps (lose 1 star here).
Luckily, there were ten qualified passwords.
LastPass: 7 stars
It lost 3 stars (3 stars for its unfriendly setting).
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Annoying to drag the thumb of the seeker bar(lost 1 star here)
Users first needed to change the password length to 12.
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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.
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Inconvenient to save an account quickly with ten steps (lose 1 star here).
Luckily, 10 passwords generated were qualified.
KeePassium: 7 stars
It lost 3 stars (for its unfriendly setting).
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Need to change the mode from “Basic” to “Expert”(lost 1 star here)
Otherwise users couldn’t change the passwords options.
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Annoying to drag the thumb of the seeker bar(lost 1 star here)
Users first needed to change the password length to 12.
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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 specific characters. Because users needed to choose special characters, clicked the box “excluded” and then typed the specific special characters (see screenshot below). Therefore it lost 1 star for these unfriendly settings.
It got ten qualified passwords.
KeePass DX: 7 stars
It lost 3 stars (for its unfriendly setting).
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Typing the excluded characters into the box of ignore characters (lost 1 star here)
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Choosing “at least one character from each” (lost 1star 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.
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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.
KeePass XC: 7 stars
The same situation (in KeePass DX) can be seen in KeePass XC, so it also lost 3 stars for its unfriendly settings and got 10 qualified passwords.
Zero password manager: 10 stars
It got 10 stars.
Zero password manager allowed users to easily choose specific characters by clicking the character. We cleared all the default special characters and chose one or two valid characters. By doing this, we got qualified passwords everytime
