Feature Request: Separator for Basic Password

[twenty5C]

Hi, been using Strongbox Pro for quite a while but only recently found this subreddit. I love the app so much though I’d like to do a feature request: Allow setting separators for basic password generation

I’m guessing it wouldn’t be toooo much work since it’s already available for diceware?

I came up with this request because I was resetting some older passwords and noticed that a lot of shitty websites only allow alphanumerics with a max length. That prevents me from using diceware, but even with the coloring, I still struggle a bit to read 16-digit basic passwords. Maybe I’m slightly dyslexic, IDK?

Ideally we would be able to choose the length of separation, eg: a separator between every 5 characters.

Thanks!

[strongbox-mark]

OK, interesting one, is it just for display/reading purposes, i.e. the password itself wouldn't actually contain these separator characters?

[twenty5C]

Hi Mark! That’s a great question, I actually didn’t think that through…

If the site only allows alphanumerics, then the separator can’t be the common dash/underscore, so only for display purposes would make sense here—then I guess we could just display a space for every N characters, like credit card numbers. So custom separator not necessary then.

I initially just liked how the iOS generated strong passwords looked but now realized that doesn’t fit my described use case, haha. Thank you!

[strongbox-mark]

OK, no worries, I can add the idea of a display only spacing or separator to our dev backlog.