Using password.app but miss 1password's memorable password generator?

I’ve just switched everything across from 1password to passwords, and I’m finding it a lot easier*.

The one thing I have missed is 1passwords memorable password generator, where I could generate random passwords like talk.mac.power, but random.

It turns out that 1password have this free on their website:

I only need to remember a handful of passwords - apple and gmail come to mind - and this is really handy.

  • I also moved some stuff, like my passport and banking details, into secure notes, and I still have my 1password subscription running for another year.
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There is also a Raycast extension that allows you to do the same Raycast Store: Memorable Password Generator

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That is so handy! Thanks

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Or you do it yourself using a few dice:

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If you are using a password manager, why do you need a “memorable” password? It’s going to be autofilled right? Curious…

I have two password that feel like gatekeepers: Apple ID and google. I feel like it is safer to memorise them, just in case.

And there are some that have to be typed in to Apple TV and other tvs by my 80 year old mum, where password managers don’t work for her.

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It’s handy whenever you don’t have your password manager, e.g. you know someone else might have to type this password manually.

Personally I use a memorable password for my Mac login and 1Password account password. It’s easier to type than gibberish, and as secure.

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The only passwords I memorize are my login password and my 1Password password. All other passwords are in 1Password, and are long, jibberish character strings.

I still remember my very first password that I got in the late 1960’s in college. We were given a four alphanumeric character account name and we had to come up with a three character password. We had to type these on a punched card (the “job card”) that we submitted with our card deck. Times have changed!

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Thanks for pointing that out.

I’m in the process of rolling over to Passwords. For 1Password secure notes, I use secure notes in Apple Notes and I’ve set the password to be the same as my 1Password password.

As I recall all we had to do was select one punch card to indicate the course we were taking, another to indicate the language (cobol or fortran), and a couple of delimiter cards to mark the beginning and end of our data.

I think the first password I ever used was probably for a DEC VAX about 20 years later.

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are they encrypted is you lock them?

I believe locking them is what encrypts them. Otherwise, they aren’t encrypted.

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Yes. From the Apple page already posted: “When a user secures a note, a 16-byte key is derived from the user’s passphrase using PBKDF2 and SHA256. The note and all of its attachments are encrypted using AES with Galois/Counter Mode (AES-GCM). New records are created in Core Data and CloudKit to store the encrypted note, attachments, tag and initialisation vector. After the new records are created, the original unencrypted data is deleted.”

I installed a Safari update on my late 2020 Intel iMac running Sonoma OS a few days ago. That made the new Passwords app available. Since then, Safari has been crashing whenever I open a website that needs a user name and password. Other websites seem to run normally. Chrome also started crashing.
I have since upgraded to Sequoia 15.1.1 but the problem persists if I log in as myself.
If I log in as Guest I do not have the problem. Safari also works properly on my old 2015 MacBook (running a very old OS) when I use 1Password to log in to websites.
I use 1Password and have not always updated the old passwords repository in Safari, so there are differences between 1Password and Passwords app.
Bug sweeps show no presence of malware or viruses.
Has anyone else had a similar problem or any thoughts??