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Ah, but nowadays there are sites that won't let you set a new password "if it is too similar to previous passwords". In particular, the US military won't let yo
by fapjacks 9y ago
Ah, but nowadays there are sites that won't let you set a new password "if it is too similar to previous passwords". In particular, the US military won't let you set a password that is similar to the last ten of your passwords. What constitutes "too similar"? It seems that your new password can't have more than a three-character substring from your old passwords.
- iak8god 9y ago> Ah, but nowadays there are sites that won't let you set a new password "if it is too similar to previous passwords". (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ I don't know how people who don't use password managers are able to deal with this kind of crap at all.
- ajr0 9y ago┬─┬ノ(º_ºノ) calm down, take it easy. they do not deal with it, they reuse passwords increasing the degree if the problem
- bjpbakker 9y agoIf a website warns me about this, I immediately remove my account. Because if they can tell how similar my new password is to my old password, it means they store information about my password. I do use a password manager however, so I don’t really notice.
- JeanMarcS 9y agoSo how do they know it's similar ? Is there a distance that could be calculated between 2 hashes and tell if they are similar ? I don't think so... So are your old passwords stored in plain text somewhere so they can compare ? Scary...
- iak8god 9y ago> Is there a distance that could be calculated between 2 hashes and tell if they are similar ? Yes, maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-preserving_hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-preserving_hashing > So are your old passwords stored in plain text somewhere so they can compare? You betcha!
- JeanMarcS 9y agoThanks for your answers :)