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@Buggz Exactly that. Length is far more important that complexity. But try telling that to all of the services out there that stick to their archaic beliefs 🙄
Because it's just inhuman to keep changing your password, I try to pick a strong base and then increment it with numbers. Maybe it's not the most secure, but it works really well at least for non-sensitive services. -
@athlon I really can't convince myself that this kind of services are secure, and the fact that with one single password someone can get access to all of them doesn't help.
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Really pisses me off too...
What I like to do is to have one password that meets the said requirement with roughly equal no of lowercase/uppercase and/or number/special chars. When there is time for a new password, I just use the SHIFT key and voila...
Only Caveat though is that now I have to remember the shift key sequence but that can be easily managed by using some sort of pattern or may be keep a hint on a piece of paper just enough to map the dots and dashes 😉 -
@n4m31ess-c0d3r on this website it would be consider too similar to the old one, it can’t contains parts of old password
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@JS96 Use KeePass for your passwords then. It's a local encrypted DB.
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@JS96 tough luck... Only if you were allowed to use special chars, then you could have dropped them in b/w the alphabets and then when switched with shift, these would become numbers and vice-versa...
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@TheOct0 its have been a long time since I did some maths, but if I'm not wrong this would be a p&c problem:
n - length of pwd,
r - no of shift key uses
Combinations = nCr = n! / (r! * (n-r)!) -
@n4m31ess-c0d3r I honestly have no idea, I'd need to seriously get a paper and a pen to even get this started because I left maths a long time ago :/
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@WIPocket
1) It can't contain more than 3 or 4 same consecutive chars.
2) They probably decrypt the old passwords on server and make a one to one check… -
When you have a super annoying problem that Google has been unable to help with... But you stumble upon a link...
- Password can't contain less than 3 chars
- Password can't contain more than 12 chars
- Password must contain only alphabetical and numerical chars
- Password must contain at least one uppercase letter
- Password can't contain a sequence of repetitive chars
- You already used this password in the past
- Password can't contain parts of passwords already used in the past
- Password can't contain your name, birthday or any other personal information
- Password can't be an anagram
- This password is too weak
"Remember that you have to update your password every 6 months".
Who the fuck has enough imagination to invent a new password that meets all these requirements every fucking 6 months?
And if so, how the fuck you can also remember it?
Fuck off… I don't really need access to my university account, right? 😡
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