Re^8: Mind the meta! (case, DBs)

Case-insensitive passwords diminish complexity. It means abcdefgh matches not one password but 256 of them. The cracker has less work. I find that inherently wrong.

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Re^9: Mind the meta! (case, DBs) by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2016 at 18:36 UTC
Make your password longer then? It's about entropy, not the symbol set. In practice, one could remember to "put a dot before uppercase", or some other encoding notion (hitting shift does not save on keystrokes either). One might be able to memorize longer passwords when the case is unimportant. And the "horse staple battery" thing? It's essentially chinese block characters, spelt out in english. You have no convincing argument. Remembered pass phrases are not well suited for strong access protection. Slow to enter and hard to remember.	[reply]

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Re^9: Mind the meta! (case, DBs)
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2016 at 18:36 UTC

Make your password longer then? It's about entropy, not the symbol set. In practice, one could remember to "put a dot before uppercase", or some other encoding notion (hitting shift does not save on keystrokes either). One might be able to memorize longer passwords when the case is unimportant. And the "horse staple battery" thing? It's essentially chinese block characters, spelt out in english. You have no convincing argument.

Remembered pass phrases are not well suited for strong access protection. Slow to enter and hard to remember.

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