Apple today informed developers that it has launched a new open source project that’s designed to let those who develop password management apps create strong passwords compatible with popular websites. From a report: The new Password Manager Resources open source project allows password management apps to integrate website-specific requirements used by the iCloud Keychain password manager to generate strong, unique passwords. “Many password managers generate strong, unique passwords for people, so that they aren’t tempted to create their own passwords by hand, which leads to easily guessed and reused passwords. Every time a password manager generates a password that isn’t actually compatible with a website, a person not only has a bad experience, but a reason to be tempted to create their own password. Compiling password rule quirks helps fewer people run into issues like these while also documenting that a service’s password policy is too restrictive for people using password managers, which may incentivize the services to change,” the company said.

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