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I want to as well, but annoyingly there are many sites that insist on a "special" character because their strength measure says "low" for the 20 character alpha
by r_c_a_d 4y ago
I want to as well, but annoyingly there are many sites that insist on a "special" character because their strength measure says "low" for the 20 character alphanumeric string I generated %-}
- yencabulator 4y agoOn those sites, I generally insert the same fixed uppercase-and-symbol string on my zbase32ed-entropy passwords. Zbase32 tends to produce numbers already, and that combo tends to satisfy the silly sites.
- wonderwonder 4y agoMy favorite is when they actually limit what special characters you can use. Must include 1 of x special characters. Why? I always just assume they baked their own password storage and couldn't figure out how to handle the whole set of special characters
- jaywalk 4y agoMultiple times I've found that this is caused by a web application firewall that is intended to mitigate SQL injection attacks. So they disallow the characters that would commonly be used in those attacks.
- wonderwonder 4y agoInteresting, I had never considered that