Randomness of password generator in question

johnrohde
johnrohde
Community Member

I've used the password generator feature for some years without problems.

After moving on to subscription, current Mac version etc. I see a message of 'dublicate' password every time I save a password that have been generated by the program. And sure enough, upon investigation there is an old duplicate of that password for some other site.

I find this extremely disturbing. The security of the 1pw generated passwords is laughable if the sequence can be replayed like this.

Can You look into this asap? It's pretty bad.


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  • Hi @johnrohde,

    I just generated 400 20-character passwords using 1Password for Mac and none of them were duplicates. Are you able to recreate the issue? I'd be interested in hearing the steps that are resulting in duplicates, if so. Unless you're using incredibly short passwords the likelihood of a duplicate ever being generated is very low.

    Thanks!

    Ben

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