Use Chinese. Use Japanese. Use Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew & Arabic. Use Unicode. Use it all. Choose life. Choose UX. Choose your own password.
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Replying to @thorsheim @TychoTithonus and
If you think using Japanese or Chinese for passwords is reasonable, you clearly know nothing about how those two languages work.
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Replying to @marcan42 @thorsheim and
Hint: the sequence of keypresses to type in those languages is unmemorizable and even nondeterministic, thus incompatible w/ password boxes.
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Replying to @marcan42 @thorsheim and
Huh. I assumed that if a char is type-able, result would be independent of keystroke combos. Where can I read more about this?
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Replying to @TychoTithonus @thorsheim and
Japanese is typed phonetically but that representation is ambiguous. Disambiguation is an interactive process with feedback.
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Replying to @marcan42 @TychoTithonus and
And since modern IMEs are adaptive and take into account past usage, the disambiguation part is nondeterministic.
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Replying to @marcan42 @TychoTithonus and
Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_input_methods#Kana_to_kanji_conversion … . In practice what ends up happening is your password is exposed until IME is done, then turns into ••••••••.
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Replying to @marcan42 @TychoTithonus and
(Which was really annoying for me when KDE4 had that bug where it kept allowing the IME on password boxes; KDE5 fixed it)
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Replying to @marcan42 @TychoTithonus and
It would be possible to type phonetic-only Japanese (kana) for passwords, but that is typed identically to romanized Japanese.
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Replying to @marcan42 @TychoTithonus and
What I like is the number of sites that will take non-ascii code and convert it before hashing. Ex Gawker set where it replaced with '!'
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Ah, those are the best systems. Reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/3cqx3n/the_worst_password_system_in_the_multiverse/ … .
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