[Slackbuilds-users] apg-2.2.3 automated password generator

Didier Spaier didier at slint.fr
Wed Nov 20 16:09:19 UTC 2019


Hi Matteo,

this cartoon is funny, but hardly accessible by Jude who is blind
(he is a Slint user, among other distributions).

Cheers,

Didier

Le 11/20/19 à 4:55 PM, Matteo Bernardini a écrit :
> Il giorno mer 20 nov 2019 alle ore 14:33 Jude DaShiell
> <jdashiel at panix.com> ha scritto:
>>
>> One improvement that could be done to all of these password generators
>> is to make sure every password starts with a letter and ends with a
>> letter.  That makes passwords more difficult by a little to crack.  The
>> reason for that is mathematics.  Numbers and special symbols have a set
>> size of 42 32 special symbols and 10 digits.  Letters have a set size of
>> 52 all lower-case and upper-case and the underscore.  Why the underscore
>> is understood as a letter by some people I don't know I would have
>> thought that would have been a special symbol.
> 
> https://xkcd.com/936/


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