Unicode in passwords

Richard Wordingham richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com
Wed Sep 30 19:23:09 CDT 2015


On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:15:30 -0700
"Clark S. Cox III" <clarkcox3 at gmail.com> wrote:
 
> You really wouldn’t want “Schlüssel” and “Schlüssel” being different
> passwords, would you?

It'd make them slightly safer to write down!  I trust the tradition of
truncating Unix passwords to 8 bytes is well and truly defunct - that'd
reduce Thai passwords to two characters plus one bit!

Richard.



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