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

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Mon Sep 30 17:32:48 EDT 2019


On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Bill Cox wrote:

> 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...

At least one web page I use does not accept "_" as a non-alpha...  It 
wants a mixture of alphas, non-alphas, digits, and at least 8 chars long.

-- Dave


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