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by brownbat 5185 days ago
I use a password locker. The only downside is that it makes setting up new accounts or changing passwords on an existing account slightly harder, which decrease usability and security a bit respectively.

Someone should RFC a common password API, so password lockers can query the password rules and set up a new account or change the password on an existing account in the background while I browse.

You might worry that this would increase the attack surface, or push people towards a single point of failure, but I think ending password reuse and simple passwords could make for a healthy net gain if you carefully designed the protocol with security in mind. (Throttling and preventing account enumeration would be two key issues, but they could be overcome.)