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> prevents passcodes with ascending or descending numbers adjacent to each other That's just silly. Assuming it also disallows duplicates next to one another,
by Kwantuum 7y ago
> prevents passcodes with ascending or descending numbers adjacent to each other
That's just silly. Assuming it also disallows duplicates next to one another, that means that there is only 7 valid digits for position 2 through 4, aka 10 * 7 * 7 * 7 = 3730 possible combinations, less than half the search space.
- saagarjha 7y agoYeah, I pointed out in my bug report for this that the policy progressively penalizes longer passcodes because it gets harder and harder for a randomly selected one to be valid as passcode length increases. I doubt it got much attention paid to it, though, so out of spite I carried around the pattern code until I left.