Just over two weeks after its annual developer event, Apple wanted to give the developer community a sneak peek by launching a new open source project. This is a password generator, with the idea of helping password managers create keywords that are complicated enough to be highly reliable.
The company itself has given the announcement from the Apple Developer website, and the project is now available on GitHub. The generator is capable of respecting the requirements of each website in order to generate passwords, each one unique. In this way, we avoid that a manager generates a password that is too long or with symbols when a website does not allow them.
Heading towards automatic password management
With this, Apple wants to do two things: encourage us all to use passwords generated with managers (such as iCloud’s own keychain that is already capable of doing so), and make it easier for all third-party managers such as LastPass or 1Password to generate the correct keys on the corresponding pages and services. In addition, web pages are encouraged to take these generators into account and set better standards.
The ” insanity of passwords ” is a complaint that I hear in practically 100% of the people who ask me questions and concerns: there are too many, and they ask for more and more complicated ones. But there is also another factor: trusting everything to automatically generated passwords can cause fear among those who consider making the gesture. These standards and the correct integration of that manager should pave the way to lose those fears.