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Creating a password in 2023 be like (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by likeaduck@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] zarp86@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm struggling to think why this would be a thing. The only guess I have is someone was told to enforce "no dictionary words in a password" and saw that as an 'easier' way to implement?

[–] tikitaki@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One one hand it reduces the total # of characters needed to brute force which is bad. On the other hand, like you said, it makes it so dictionary attacks are weaker - which is good

Although I think you could just get a regular dictionary, remove the vowels, and it would probably work just fine

So ultimately? I think stupid decision