Aaron Toponce ⚛️May 25, 2023

If I'm counting correctly, I see 16 Unicode horizontal white space characters.

#passwords

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Show threadAaron Toponce ⚛️May 25, 2023
This is tricky to verify I've implemented correctly.
Show threadAaron Toponce ⚛️May 25, 2023

For example, here are some white space #passwords with 80-bits security. There are 16 white space characters to choose from of varying widths, which means each of these below are 20 characters long, wrapped in quotes:

- "                  "
- "      　             "
- "                   "
- " 　               "
- "          　      　  "

So, not only are there passwords you can't remember, now there are passwords you can't read!

Show threadMark Wieczorek
@atoponce ... and passwords that we can no longer use!
May 25, 2023 at 9:03amWeb
Show threadAaron Toponce ⚛️May 25, 2023
@mrak Why not? Copy/paste out of your password manager, no?
Show threadMark WieczorekMay 25, 2023
@atoponce they are now in a password cracking database :)
Show threadAaron Toponce ⚛️May 25, 2023
@mrak Already figured they were! Provided you have a sufficient security margin, it doesn't matter.