Or just use your password manager. Where you save that password.
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Your password manager does this too!
You can also just use "random password x" with x being a number. What I use more often is "random uuid" which I hope is self explanatory.
No thank you, KeepAssXC for me!
$ Openssl rand 16 | base64
today I learned. Thanks :)
That's fucked up, they should not do that. Even if they do it in a way that users are actually secure (maybe generating the password in the browser, nothing serverside?), it isn't good to train people to trust a website for this.
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That isn't great from a security perspective
$ pwgen -s -1 32
This seems like one picked up data packet away from being a bad idea. Am I overthinking this?
This is probably ok. First of all, they're probably actually doing it in Javascript in the browser. It probably never travels over the network at all. And, if it did, with HTTPS it would be hard to intercept and decrypt except by a government or something.
But, it still gives me the willies to generate a password on a web page. Fundamentally a web browser is still a tool for sending and receiving data over the Internet, and that's not the kind of tool I'd want to be generating something that I don't want other people to know or see.
What happens if there's a bug? If the password is being generated in an app on my local system a badly designed app with a bug could maybe log my newly generated password in a local log file somewhere. If there's a bug in DuckDuckGo's javascript, who knows where that newly generated password might be logged?
With https as protocol, picked up data packets won't do much harm.
But relying on anything but a local password manager is imho still a bad idea.
Yeah I think I'll just click an icon in my password manager instead.
This is probably fine. The connection to DDG will be over HTTPS, so a captured packet would need to be decoded first. And if someone were to manage to break the encryption, then they would also need to know what service you used the password for.
Ultimately, it's more secure to generate locally, but it would be a huge amount of work to get anything usable out of a packet capture
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You are not overthinking it. Exploiting this would be a bit more complex than capturing a packet on the wire, but it is possible.
If you intend to use a passphrase for anything important, it's best to generate it locally.
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I like the little tools like this that DuckDuckGo has. A couple others:
- "color picker"
- "base64 encode your_text_here" (and "base64 decode encoded_string_here" as well)
- "json formatter"
yeah
now tell me why are people hating it and putting codes on the comments
I think a lot of people turned against DDG when they started pushing their AI generated results really hard. Seems like DDG is going all in on AI. I have started paying for Waterfox's search engine myself, after using DDG exclusively for years.
They still offer an alternative on their noai subdomain
Oh nice, that's good to know about.
I also just remembered that there's html.duckduckgo.com as well, which also seems to leave out any AI features.
my favorite is "qr code" best and easiest qr code generator
I like this as most qr generator websites make a link shortener kind of thing and put ads before my content.
You can type "qr url" and have it done in one step. However, unlike your two-step process that most likely just fetches results for the common "qr code" query from cache, this loads their servers unnecessarily. The same can be achieved in Firefox by bookmarking "https://qr.15c.me/tiny-qr.html#%s" (or a local copy of tiny-qr.html) and settting its keyword (not to be confused with tags) to "qr".
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If you're going to auto generate passwords, just use BitWarden.
I use KeePass. It's just a local file (which you can sync/host how you see fit if you need to). I don't understand why people choose to use password managers hosted by other people. You almost certainly don't need that, and it introduces issues and vulnerabilities with little upside.
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