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"create strong passwords" I'm not sure it's that strong.

• bootload 18y ago
  "... "create strong passwords (by reversing them)": I'm not sure it's that strong ..." Good point. It's all one and zeros to computers.
• sh1mmer 18y ago
  I'd be surprised if this didn't greatly help you against dictionary attacks. I'm pretty sure 90% of cracking dictionaries don't even touch that range of UTF-8. Once you get out of dictionary range brute forcing a password is much, much harder... ...although now I'm wondering how long it would take as a map reduce job...
  • kaens 18y ago
    It would also be trivial to write a program to update the dictionaries to include the flipped / reversed / other silly unicode trick version of everything already in the dictionary. I wouldn't assume that this would help against dictionary attacks for long, if at all now considering that people have been doing stuff like this pretty much since unicode got "mainstream" status.