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Re:When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly... by spydum on Thursday July 11, 2019 @08:46PM (#20417202)
I’m pretty sure that would be unmanageable, but love to see it tried.. Are you thinking of each character acting more like a number in a combination lock and needing to be provided to the app sequentially to be checked? I dont get how you distinguish between password managers and bots or API dictionary attacks on the same interface?
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Re:When it comes to composition and length, passwords mostly... by jarfil on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:21PM (#20417579)
Isn't that essentially how the "I'm not a bot" captcha works though? And it seems to work pretty well.
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