Password Character Extractor Application

tntcoder · 15 Oct 2010 at 00:18

Hi,

Just whacked this together as I was fed up of doing countless finger counting to work out characters at positions x,y,z in my 20 character online banking password.

Very simple but maybe it will be useful to someone else

If you have a long secure password for banking or similar services that request characters at specific positions, it may be useful to you.

I just directly copy a password out of the KeePass password manager and get the requested positions nice and quickly.

Executable: Download

Source Code (Visual Studio C#): Download

SiriusB · 15 Oct 2010 at 01:10

Very handy. Shame I already learned the positions of all the characters!

A[L]C · 15 Oct 2010 at 16:45

isnt it quicker to use your fingers than load up the app, copy and paste the password, flick between the app and the website to find the character positions required, maybe have to flick again to double check, then click go?

SiriusB · 15 Oct 2010 at 17:56

If you have a huge password I can't see it being quicker using your fingers. Mine is pretty long but due to it being one of my special "oh crap what if I need to use it and I don't have my password manager handy" passwords that is complicated but memorable.

Smaller passwords are probably quicker by eye.

tntcoder · 15 Oct 2010 at 19:19

SiriusB said:
If you have a huge password I can't see it being quicker using your fingers. Mine is pretty long but due to it being one of my special "oh crap what if I need to use it and I don't have my password manager handy" passwords that is complicated but memorable.

Smaller passwords are probably quicker by eye.

Yer that's mainly why I made it, for long an non-memorable ones. Also I have 2 monitors, so I can just click an icon on the second screen and it's significantly quicker for me at least.

Less brainwork ***

theheyes · 15 Oct 2010 at 19:34

Is anyone elses brain about to explode with passwords these days? My bank made me create one of these additional ones recently and the next time I came to log in I'd forgotten it. I think I'm approaching my limit.

A[L]C · 15 Oct 2010 at 19:35

thats why I use lastpass!

SiriusB · 16 Oct 2010 at 16:17

I went and forgot my ISA account password 2 days after I reset it after forgetting it the first time. This was just before I started using LastPass lol.