Show HN: Evilpass – A slightly evil password strength checker

Re:Show HN: Evilpass – A slightly evil password strength che... by teej on Saturday February 18, 2017 @12:15PM (#13675586)

There are ~1800 widely supported emojis. That blows out the search space. There are 10^19 possible passwords for a 6 character alphanum+emoji, the same as a 10 character password using just alphanum + simple keyboard symbols.

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Re:Show HN: Evilpass – A slightly evil password strength che... by eslaught on Saturday February 18, 2017 @12:29PM (#13675638)

But what's the actual distribution of usage of emoji? I'm guessing there is a small-ish set that people actually use, just like there is a small-ish set of words that people will pick from if you ask them to pick a passphrase containing "random" words.

Unless you pick the passphrase for them, you're not really gaining the advantage of the search space size.

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Re:Show HN: Evilpass – A slightly evil password strength che... by MichaelGG on Saturday February 18, 2017 @12:31PM (#13675646)

Except people will probably stick to a few common ones and do a pattern. Love eyes x2 heart heart, thumbs up -- just like people don't pick words uniformly.

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