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Popular German bank „Sparkasse“ has this great online banking system that allows you only 5 characters (Small and large, numbers, umlauts and eszet[1]). They ca
by 0XAFFE 10y ago
Popular German bank „Sparkasse“ has this great online banking system that allows you only 5 characters (Small and large, numbers, umlauts and eszet[1]). They call it a PIN (Personal identification /number/), but IMO its terribly insecure.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F
- Bartweiss 10y agoThe entire 'pin' scheme frustrates me. I've started to see it in a growing number of places as full authentication - either no password or pin accepted without the password. 5 characters with those options obviously isn't enough, but it's still better than "four digit numeric", which is also out there. That's such a small space that you can try it by hand, for god's sake.
- duffn 10y agoThis is the second time I've now heard of this since starting the repo. I cannot believe an online financial institution allows this. Feel free to submit a PR if you like.