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you can try camelCasing your passwords, same effect really
by rtpg 13y ago
you can try camelCasing your passwords, same effect really
- certainly_not 13y agoPasswords don't need to be legible in the first place. There's nothing wrong with correcthorsebatterystaple. On the other hand, forbidding spaces is absolutely misguided.
- kijin 13y agoUnless the website silently lowercases all passwords. A lot of them do, in the name of making life easier for people who have Caps Lock on.
- alistairjcbrown 13y agoIIRC Facebook creates three passwords to deal with character case issues; the one you enter, an inverted case version and a version with the first characters case inverted.
- jsmeaton 13y agoI'd be very surprised if they created all 3. They probably check the other 2 variations if the first one fails though: if (entered == password || entered.swapcase() == password) .. // etc
- r00fus 13y agoIn order to be performant, since the check is not against your actual password but just against a stored hash (salted/bcyrpted/etc), I wouldn't be surprised if they simply stored all 3 hash results.