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Firefox/SeaMonkey/Mozilla/Netscape/Flock Browser Extension => Bugs => Topic started by: samstgt on June 16, 2005, 08:35:39 PM

Title: Lenghth of generated password (0.6.1 beta)
Post by: samstgt on June 16, 2005, 08:35:39 PM

The length of the generated password is only like the choosen length until a from the hash-algorithm specific lenght.

My character set:
1234567890qwertzuiopü+asdfghjklöä#<yxcvbnm,.-!§$%&/()=?QWERTZUIOPÜ*ASDFGHJKLÖÄ'>YXCVBNM;:_|\

Hash-Algorithm: HMAC-MD5

If I choose a lenght over 20, the generated password sticks with the 20 characters.
For Hash-Algorithm SHA-256 is the max. length 10 characters.

Hope it's easy to fix, because the possibility to use specific characters is great.

Bye
samstgt

Title: Lenghth of generated password (0.6.1 beta)
Post by: Eric H. Jung on June 16, 2005, 09:55:33 PM

Hi Samstgt,
Glad to hear umlaut characters work in generated passwords.

Thanks for reporting the length issue. I will fix it before 0.6.1 is released.
In case you are interested, the reason it's occuring is because the radix you've chosen -- 94 -- encodes an enormous amount of data in each character. There's probably not enough data to enocde more than 10-20 characters.

-Eric