Automatic Password Generation from Hidden Form Criteria
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing password generation methods require users to manually interpret and customize password criteria, leading to inefficiencies and trial-and-error processes when creating compliant passwords for online accounts.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for automatic compliant password generation that detects password criteria from various sources associated with the input field, including text proximity, field attributes, trial inputs, and crowdsourced user data, to generate randomized passwords that meet the detected criteria.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual password creation with user interpretation of criteria is used, then user control over password customization is maintained, but time consumption and inefficiency increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects password criteria from the input field context and generates compliant passwords without requiring user interpretation or manual customization. The password generator serves itself by extracting requirements from the form field attributes, nearby text, and error messages, eliminating the need for users to manually configure parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary detection of password criteria before generating the password. By analyzing the input field's HTML attributes, surrounding text elements, and error messages in advance, the system prepares the required parameters ahead of time, enabling immediate compliant password generation without trial-and-error processes.
2Reliability
If trial-and-error password creation is used, then users can ensure compliance with criteria, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback from error messages and form validation to automatically adjust password generation parameters. By capturing the actual compliance requirements from error feedback and form field attributes, the system generates passwords that reliably meet all criteria in a single attempt, eliminating repeated trial-and-error processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of compliance requirements by extracting criteria from form field attributes, nearby text labels, and validation error messages before generating the password. This advance preparation ensures the generated password meets all requirements immediately, avoiding time-consuming trial-and-error iterations.
3Device complexity
If password criteria are not visible to users, then form simplicity is maintained, but user understanding of requirements decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system acts as an intermediary between the hidden form validation logic and the user. Instead of requiring users to directly interpret complex HTML attributes or validation rules, the system extracts these hidden requirements and translates them into actionable password generation parameters, bridging the information gap without exposing form complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The password generator automatically retrieves and processes password criteria information from the form context without requiring users to manually locate or interpret the criteria. The system serves itself by extracting requirements from field attributes, nearby text, and error messages, eliminating the need for users to understand or manually configure complex validation rules.
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AI summary
A method, computer program product, and computer system for automatic compliant password generation. The method includes activating password generation for a given input field and gathering information from one or more sources associated with the input field. The method includes determining password criteria from the gathered information and generating bound requirements based on the determined password criteria. The method further includes generating a randomized password meeting the bound requirements.