There is also a risk of leaking password information to third party scripts. They also provided a number of measures that password managers can take to prevent this, including only allowing filling in passwords after user interaction. Password managers that automatically fill in credentials can be prone to coffeeshop hacker attacks (over HTTP), as shown by Silver, Jana et al in their paper Password Managers: Attacks and Defenses (pdf). Last Pass playing ball Security considerations But if things don’t play out, this post may contain some pointers to look at.
It will often give you a form that performs well across password managers. Password managers are built to work with all login forms that follow best practices. You might think, isn’t recognising my fields the job of a password manager? Isn’t this their problem? I have good news. I believe some password managers have hard-coded field recognition for popular websites in order to make them work. For this reason, Firefox’s password manager complements its heuristics with a recipe system, where users can describe specific instructions for specific hosts. Yet, they sometimes still fail to recognise them. Password managers come with all sorts of heuristics to detect username and password fields. Ideally, password managers work in both of these cases: on first time visit (when they offer to store credentials) and on recurring visits (when they let you use stored credentials).ġPassword recognises it has a pair of credentials for this site Things like password generation, offering to save credentials for a host name and filling in the password for you in a secure way. With ‘playing ball’ in this post, I mean that password managers recognise your login form and let you use their features on your fields. If you’re building a login form, these are some tips to improve the experience for password manager users. Hence the popularity of password managers. Therefore, remembering them all is impossible for most human beings.
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