[Cryptography] "Strong" passwords too clever by half...

Bill Cox waywardgeek at gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 15:44:53 EDT 2019


On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 4:37 PM Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:

> I used a "^" character in a password, but I
> recently discovered that this character is
> impossible to input with some versions of
> Android keyboard programs.
>

I did something even worse: On Android, I added a space at the end of my
password, which was accepted.  However, in browsers, the JavaScript for the
login page trims trailing spaces...
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