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.

  • federalreverse-old@feddit.de
    94·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Xartle@lemmy.ml
      53·
      9 months ago

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

    • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • PlexSheep@feddit.de
        9·
        9 months ago

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

        • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          8·
          9 months ago

          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).

      • PupBiru@kbin.social
        3·
        9 months ago

        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

      • ____
        1·
        9 months ago

        Those two have burned me. Had my work laptop pw using them, was all well and good until the external keyboard broke and I was left trying to figure out how to enter characters not on my keyboard, without being able to alt-numberpad the code for it.

      • federalreverse-old@feddit.de
        5·
        9 months ago

        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.