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@ScriptCoded any windows pc has it installed, and the last time I used someone else their PC with my account is about 5 years ago.
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@irene That's true, though who uses Windows? πππ€¦βοΈππ€·π»βοΈπ₯¦
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@HoloDreamer the icons can be different but the underlying Unicode is the same.
So you may have issues with iOS / Android and different android Roma having different icons for similar things. -
@irene π¨π»π¨π»π»π¨πΌπ»π¨π½π»π¨πΎπ»π¨πΏπ» which one would you like?
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@Jilano Exactly the response I expected. Thank you for being the stability I need in my life.
@ScriptCoded I don't trust my friends enough to put my password into their laptop. Who fucking knows what kind of viruses they may or may not have.
@all Maybe only mobile app passwords for the time being then? You're never without an emoji keyboard. -
I heard someone propose this a while back. It was immediately met with a reason why it is a bad idea.
I believe it boils down to the fact that emoji, while looking exactly the same, actually might be encoded slightly differently, depending on your platform. If that is true, it would mean emoji passwords are a veeeeery bad idea. -
@irene Well... Yes. But while the purpose of unicode is to preserve every character when going to and then from unicode, I am not sure whether they guarantee anything about a unique encoding.
I can ask the original person who came up with this story, if you want :-)
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The "range of characters" does not matter as much as the length of the password: k^x grows faster than x^k (that is, by keeping the set of characters constant and increasing the length you get better results than increasing the number of available characters and keeping the length constant).
Example: let's say your password contains 6 emojis. This gives about 137000^6 combinations (137000 is the approximate number of unicode characters). Now let's say my password is "the milk is in the fridge". This has 24 ascii characters, resulting in 127^24 combinations, much higher than the short unicode password.
The point is: if you want to make your password stronger, you have to make it longer.
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@stacked Yeah but that password contains everyday words which makes it vulnerable to dictionary guesses
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@RedPolygon check the numbers, and if they don't satisfy you, just add more words ;)
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@irene I did not intend to suggest the use of phrases, but just longer passwords. Personally, I use random 32-characters long strings of letters and digits (whenever stupid websites don't limit the length). Stronger than any shorter unicode-based password.
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@irene stronger... and works in every environment
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http://emoj.li/ should have done this ^^
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@cursee They Egyptian did it /:
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@AllanTaylor314 Huh, you're right. I though there was a red Swingline stapler, but I guess not?
Idea: Emoji passwords
Bdixbsufhdbe HEAR ME OUT
I know, I know, emojis belong with teenage girls on Snapchat but there are some theoretical benefits to emoji passwords.
Brute Force attacks are useless! With such a wide range of characters and so many different combinations, they just wouldn't be viable.
Dictionary attacks are less useful! Because those require...words.
They can be easier to remember. Tell a story with your emojis. Images are easier to commit to memory than combinations of letters and numbers.
Users would adopt the feature! For whatever reason, the general population fucking loves these things. So emoji passwords probably won't take very long to see use.
I don't know much about this last one, so I saved it for last, but I would imagine that decryption would be more difficult if the available values is quite vast. I dunno how rainbow tables and hash defucking works so I'll just put this here as a "maybe"
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