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How does this work? Do you change it every time you log in? Or do you just force yourself to not look at or save the password each time you retrieve it?
by tbirrell 9y ago
How does this work? Do you change it every time you log in? Or do you just force yourself to not look at or save the password each time you retrieve it?
- bigmanwalter 9y agoHe probably uses a randomly generated password that he doesn't bother memorizing and which he copy/pastes.
- xxXXxx- 9y agoPassword I know -> hash function (probably with millions or billions of iterations) -> Twitter password that I don't know. Not peeking at the Twitter password is a non-issue, people don't generally memorize the output of hash functions, even if they wanted to, they are a long string of random characters. Here's an example: the SHA256 hash of your username is 328BFB7DEAB24355A7A0D2377AB8DEF70D8DECF968E90AA507D590ACDD25A7AC if you were to then hash 328BFB7DEAB24355A7A0D2377AB8DEF70D8DECF968E90AA507D590ACDD25A7AC you'd get 227D82D075605DE042164082145FC7D296DF20C4BAAA2834B5541182C0D13051. Hash that and get 2062A298907588A3045EE89D9C366C64097924BC50F48981CF4A736B9BB093DF. Now repeat that process a billion or so times and you'll calculate your Twitter password. This is a really great idea, it's literally impossible to overcome the restriction.