Google Working On Password Generator For Chrome

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 18, 2012 @04:31PM from the 123456-letmein-hunter2 dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Google is in the process of developing a tool to help users generate strong passwords for the various and sundry Web sites for which they need to register and authenticate. The password-generator is meant to serve as an interim solution for users while Google and other companies continue to work on widespread deployment of the OpenID standard. The tool Google engineers are working on is a fairly simple one. For people who are using the Chrome browser, whenever a site presents them with a field that requires creating a password, Chrome will display a small key icon, letting the users know that they could allow Chrome to generate a password for them."

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Re:xkcd by zill · 2012-02-18 17:52 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I think this comic is much more related.

Before I started using keepass I actually stored the majority of my passwords in gmail in plaintext. I figured that google already has enough dirt to send me to gitmo for life from my search results alone, giving them more data isn't going to hurt.