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 @TychoTithonus and
I’ll admit I don’t know Chinese or Japanese, but I’ve been co-supervising a Chinese PhD student doing pwd research. Does that count?
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Replying to @thorsheim @TychoTithonus and
Have you spoken to him about how passwords work in Chinese? ;)
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Replying to @marcan42 @TychoTithonus and
Him? I’ve seen her type in Chinese passphrases for various sites. Seems to work as far as I can tell. And she’s damn smart too!
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Replying to @thorsheim @TychoTithonus and
In actual Chinese characters, not romanized/pinyin? And without displaying everything on the screen first?
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Replying to @marcan42 @TychoTithonus and
Hey, I don't know Chinese, but it looked very Chinese to me. Oh, and the password entry itself was masked.
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Replying to @thorsheim @TychoTithonus and
If it was masked how do you know it was Chinese? I'm sure she was just typing pinyin (i.e. ASCII romanized Chinese). https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity14/sec14-paper-li-zhigong.pdf …
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Replying to @marcan42 @TychoTithonus and
Good point. And that paper was a big surprise imho when it got published, although their findings wasn’t THAT surprising. We «knew» ...
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Replying to @thorsheim @marcan42 and
.. that on average we would find easier pwds from China than in «western» countries, and much more use of numbers (pins) for pwds than here.
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Replying to @thorsheim @TychoTithonus and
The Chinese have a thing for numbers. Lots of numeric domains. AIUI it's an abbreviation method (mapping numbers to sounds), not just PINs.
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Replying to @marcan42 @thorsheim and
Japan has that too but to a lesser extent. People here just tend to use passwords with romanized Japanese.
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