Re: Unicode in passwords

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 01:23:09 +0100

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.
Received on Wed Sep 30 2015 - 19:24:20 CDT

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