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lemm.ee

We've had 1st-factor authentication, but what about 2nd-factor?

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Calaverareply
lemm.ee

Is it though? Because I it's the same amount of characters

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slrpnk.net

But there are 12 possible characters rather than 10 which increases the problem space.

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Calaverareply
lemm.ee

Sorry, what do you mean by 12 characters?

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slrpnk.net

All numbers in a passcode means 10 possible values for each position: 0-9. Just the letters in the phrase “second breakfast” include 12 possible values at each position which means mathematically there are more possible solutions.

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Calaverareply
lemm.ee

But the attacker wouldn't know about that. He does not know if the password is just characters, numbers etc...

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I was thinking about that because probably the first world on these dictionaries is "password"

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jpepsreply
lemmy.world

Speaking of not knowing things, how do you know the attacker's pronouns?

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Zhaoreply

This made me laugh pretty hard for some reason. Thank you.

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Where do you get the 12 from? Alphabetical is 26 variations per character, not 12.

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Do it with the caps and lowers intact. Add spaces and you’ve got an unbrute-able password.

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'cause noble gases are elitists, they won't mix with these other plebs at all

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh man this is a - g o o d - m e m e -

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lemmy.world

This just made me realize how much of a pain it is to spell words with the abbreviations of elements.

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You think they had to throw out some early potential titles for Breaking Bad because they couldn't make the logo work?

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append and/or prepend any special character and voilà, it's a very strong passwd

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