Timeline for philosophical: restricting the password space increases security
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| Aug 2, 2018 at 15:17 | comment | added | Tom | The main point is that things that seem "not really random" to out stupid intuition actually are. If you see a long string of random numbers, you see pattern in there that you THINK should not be. But the opposite is true: They should. It is exactly because of randomness that they can spontaneously emerge. | |
| Aug 2, 2018 at 15:16 | comment | added | Tom | rofl, that's right. I got carried away a little there. You can use ":-):-)" which has been seen just 8 times, or ":-)(-:" which is really easy to remember, has special characters, and just one hit. :-) | |
| Aug 2, 2018 at 14:25 | comment | added | AndrolGenhald | Might want a better example than "aaaaaa" vs "passwd", pwned passwords currently returns 375,079 usages of "aaaaaa" and only 12,251 usages of "passwd". | |
| Aug 2, 2018 at 12:31 | history | answered | Tom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |