Pixel picture instead of password: unusual extension released for Chrome

Web developer Dalton Edwards has created a Chrome extension called WeHatePasswords that replaces the password field with easy-to-remember pixel art. Thus, in order to register and subsequently log in to sites and services, the user just needs to draw a picture. Moreover, such pixel passwords can be stored both in Chrome’s built-in password manager and in third-party managers, since the generated images are stored as strings.

The author of the extension claims that drawing is very accurate, for this a 7 × 7 grid with a palette of 8 colors is used. However, it is not at all necessary to use all colors or fill all blocks. Such a pixel password is 183,907,046 times safer than a regular one. For comparison, the automatically generated password in Safari contains 970,087,680,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations, and WeHatePasswords contains 178,405,960,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. powerful computer and 4,808,633,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

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It should be noted that this is the second version of WeHatePasswords. The first was available as a JavaScript widget that needed to be embedded into websites. However, a year later, Dalton Edwards came to the conclusion that his development would be more in demand as a browser extension.

The WeHatePasswords extension costs $ 10 and you can buy it on the official website. It is currently in beta testing and will improve over time, the developer promises. In particular, he plans to add the ability to hide the drawing process.

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