You can totally use emojis as passwords. You can probably even make this a policy at your company.

Edit: I thought this was an obvious enough joke, but just to clear things up: Only do this if you hate your company and everyone working there.

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    And here I am avoiding even special characters because I worry about having to enter them on a French keyboard at some point.

    Do be aware that a single emoji is often composed of multiple Unicode characters (e.g. base emoji + gender modifier + skin tone modifier). Entering that on the command line is going to be fun.

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      On the upside, you could probably satisfy length and complexity requirements with just one emoji. ;)

    • @[email protected]
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      And here I am avoiding even special characters because I worry about having to enter them on a French keyboard at some point.

      I use only special characters that are on the same places with most layouts (at least english and finnish). I suppose passwords with ä or ö might be a bit more resistant to brute-force attacks, but it causes far more problems than it might theoretically solve.

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        Longer passwords make your passwords exponentially more secure, in terms of security bits. Length matters.

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          True, and for most credentials I of course use password manager, but things like workstation password are still something I need to manually type out and for those 65 random characters aren’t really practical. And for those I use things like ‘HorseBattery69+’ instead of ‘SalainenSäläsänä69+’ since while they (could be) equally long and complex the latter is pretty much impossible to type out if keyboard setting is something else than finnish (swedish works too I think).

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        also nothing that looks the same for the annoying time when you do have to do some analog copying

        no I, l, or | and i usually avoid ‘, “, !, /, \ (which one was it again?) and a few others that i have set in my password manager

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          They absolutely can

          EDIT: Not for OS logins

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              Good point, I thought he meant other logins for some reason.

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      that happened to me :/

      i couldn’t login using AZERTY. i thought i fucked up and forgotten my password but no, same letter was encoded as a different character in 2 different languages 🤷

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        Why not? Pretty much all software from the past twenty years has been UTF-8 compatible. The issue is more that you may at some point be in a situation where you can’t (directly) use your password manager.