Bitwarden's password generator allows me 2 options. First: mixing upper/lower case, special characters, and numbers. This max's out at 128 characters. Second: A passphrase that uses dictionary words, 1st uppercase each word, and one randomly placed number. This ~140-165 characters. Which is better? 
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Here’s a good post from Protonmail on the subject. https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-com-blog-password-vs-passphrase/ I personally use Bitwarden set to 20 character passwords with upper, lower, numbers, special characters, min three numbers, min three special characters, and avoid ambiguous characters turned off. https://i.imgur.com/sJfOIDP.jpg And thanks for those video links, informative. Answer from Deleted User on reddit.com
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Free Password Generator | Create Strong Passwords and Passphrases | Bitwarden
The generator will create a strong password that meets your specifications. ... We all know the drill of setting up an account on a new website—being asked to create a password, and then making sure to include both upper- and lowercase letters and numbers, as well as a special character or two (or three or four).
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Username & Password Generator | Bitwarden
If you're creating an account that isn't stored in Bitwarden, you can also use the inline autofill menu to generate and autofill a password using the Fill generated password prompt: ... When using inline, use the generate button to generate a new password until you're satisfied with it. Inline password generation uses the settings from the browser extension's Generator tab.
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Password generation default settings - Password Manager - Bitwarden Community Forums
May 2, 2024 - Is there a way to customize the settings for the Bitwarden Password Generator? I’d love to be able to fix my own preferences e.g. password length, types of characters, etc. which shall then remain fixed for both my web a…
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r/Bitwarden on Reddit: Bitwarden's password generator allows me 2 options. First: mixing upper/lower case, special characters, and numbers. This max's out at 128 characters. Second: A passphrase that uses dictionary words, 1st uppercase each word, and one randomly placed number. This ~140-165 characters. Which is better?
November 23, 2020 -
I've looked at XKCD's correcthorse comic which discusses entropy. Even further I really like these two videos (1 and 2) that Computerphile made about strong passwords and how passwords are cracked. Even still I don't think I know enough about the two options to definitively say which is the superior option.
On one hand I love the introduction of special characters as well as the protection against dictionary attacks, on the other it's so many more characters which adds to the complexity by probably billions in orders of magnitude from a brute force angle.
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Here’s a good post from Protonmail on the subject. https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-com-blog-password-vs-passphrase/ I personally use Bitwarden set to 20 character passwords with upper, lower, numbers, special characters, min three numbers, min three special characters, and avoid ambiguous characters turned off. https://i.imgur.com/sJfOIDP.jpg And thanks for those video links, informative.
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I think when computerphile says passphrases are better he means its better if you plan on actually remembering the passphrase/password. Its easier to remember long passphrases then long passwords. But I think if you are randomly generating them for your vault to forget it wont make much difference
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Create a strong password for a new login with one click | Bitwarden
When visiting a website where there’s no login saved in your Bitwarden vault, simply select the password field, and the inline autofill menu will suggest a strong, generated password to use. The generated password is based on your browser extension’s current password generator settings.
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Problem With Generator Settings - Password Manager - Bitwarden Community Forums
December 31, 2024 - Hello, could anyone help me? Whenever I sign out of the app, browser extension, or web account, my generator settings reset to 14 characters without special characters. My settings never stay saved. If the app gets loc…
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How to use the Bitwarden Passphrase Generator | Bitwarden
There are two ways you can create a passphrase: from the Generator tool or from within the vault item creation pop-up. The process is the same for each method. Open the Bitwarden app and create a new vault item. Fill out the information as you normally would and click the icon (two circular arrows - Figure 1) to open the password creation pop-up.
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Edit default options for new vault entry password generator - Password Manager - Bitwarden Community Forums
March 24, 2022 - Is there currently a way to edit what the default settings are in the password generator as I’m creating a new entry? If you use the password generator in the tools menu, it lets you edit length, what you want in the password, etc.
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r/Bitwarden on Reddit: Password generator?
November 18, 2023 -
Does anyone use this feature? I think it’s a critical component of a password manager, but the Bitwarden implementation seems very clunky. Curious whether this is generally used?
Full disclosure - we are an MSP looking to roll out to our client base and it seems like the way the generator is implemented would make it unlikely that users would use this - so I thought I would with the community whether you routinely use the password generator feature.
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Click generator click copy. I don't see the issue. I set the parameters first, once.
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clunky Not sure what you mean. Do you have an example of something you prefer? IMO password generation is a challenging workflow for the user, simply because there are so many different and inconsistent rules for acceptable passwords. https://dumbpasswordrules.com/ This renders into a terrible user experience, and it has nothing to do with the password manager.
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Bitwarden: How To Generate a Password - Technipages
April 2, 2021 - Open the password generator in the “Tools” tab, then configure your preferred password settings. Tip: If you’re adding a new entry or editing an existing one, you can click the circling arrow icon, labelled “Generate password” to open ...
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r/Bitwarden on Reddit: How to use the Bitwarden Passphrase Generator
May 7, 2024 - This is 77763 ~= 238 possible combinations. The default password is 14 unambiguous alphanumeric characters. That's 5714 ~= 281 possible combinations. The defaults for the passphrase generator should be 6 words, not 3.
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Make "Fill Generated Password" use the user default password generator settings - Password Manager - Bitwarden Community Forums
September 9, 2025 - When I update the selection in the password generator, it is remembered for the next time I open this window. It would be great if the inline “Fill Generated Password” tool tip that happens on a new website would use these same settings, instead of the default random letter password.
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Remember / Configure Password Generator Settings for Each Login Item in the Vault - Password Manager - Bitwarden Community Forums
March 8, 2021 - I’d really like to see Bitwarden remember the particular password generator settings you use for each site. And that includes allowing you to specify a custom set of special characters. Sites vary in all the various requ…
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r/Bitwarden on Reddit: Using the password generator
September 14, 2018 -
I screwed up using the password generator - lightly screwed, now recovered. I generated a new password and used it to change an online password. Then I spent about a minute looking for a button to transfer the new password to the now-changed account; I couldn't find a button, and by that time (one minute) my clipboard cleared. So there I was with a changed password that I didn't know. (Later I found the Password History, which would have saved me a little work.)
I recovered okay, but that leads me to ask, "What is the best way to use the password generator?" Unless there's a better idea, the next time I'll copy it to the notes section, then copy the old password down there, too, then copy the new one to the password box. That way I'll have both in case I forget to save something.
What's a better way to do this?
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r/Bitwarden on Reddit: Can the Default Password Generator Length be Changed?
July 2, 2022 -
My default password generator length is set to 24. I would like to increase the default length, but I can't find anywhere in options/preferences to do so. Am I missing where this is set, or does Bitwarden just not support this?
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I'm not sure why you are having this issue but just so you know, 24 characters is more than enough for a great password, so there isn't really anything to worry about even if you can't increase the length to 25 characters. If you're more interested about this I suggest that you read this excellent article by 1password that gives a detailed and technical analysis of password length. The article concludes that even 20 characters is overkill and is only the default option because people would otherwise think that the password isn't strong enough. https://blog.1password.com/how-long-should-my-passwords-be/
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My default password generator length is set to 24. I would like to increase the default length, but I can't find anywhere in options/preferences to do so. Am I missing where this is set, or does Bitwarden just not support this? It should default to whatever settings you used last if I recall correctly.
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Password Generator: How does changing 'Minimum numbers' and 'Minimum special' affect entropy? - Password Manager - Bitwarden Community Forums
December 25, 2024 - The way they work is as follows (assuming 128 char password length): If i set both minimums to 0, then i will get passwords with all 128 characters from a-zA-Z if i set both minimums to 1, then i will get passwords with at most 126 characters ...
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Defaults for Password-Generator - Password Manager - Bitwarden Community Forums
March 3, 2023 - Hello, there is a policy to set the lowest settings for generating passwords. That’s a nice setting. But there are services on the web that have (sadly) stupid settings for the passwords like a max length or something …
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How to use the Bitwarden username generator and why you should | Bitwarden
With Bitwarden, you can generate a strong, random password that will be far more secure than the one you make up yourself. But random passwords aren't the only option in this toolkit, you also get a random username generator. Here's why and how to use it.
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Customizable standard settings for the password generator - Password Manager - Bitwarden Community Forums
March 13, 2020 - The password presets for the password/passphrase generator should be customizable from the settings by the user. For the moment being the number of words and number of characters are always set to a standard value. It’s…
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Changing Password Generator Parameters for Chrome Context Menu - Password Manager - Bitwarden Community Forums
December 4, 2022 - I am new to Bitwarden and would like to begin using this across our company, but I have not been able to find a way to modify the password generator parameters when generating a password from the context menu in Chrome. It seems to only be able to do a 14 character password with letters and numbers.