back in the neolithic period, I used to use high-ASCII characters in my passwords, when they allowed them and had also lower limits on password sizes. As high-ASCII weren't usually included in character sets of brute force attack actors it provided a bit of extra security. Nowadays, I'm not sure how many institutions allow "non-standard" characters, but I do know the ones I use don't so as a result I use longer passwords with more unique characters for higher complexity.I use a fingerprint, but a 12-character password makes sense to me.(why use a 12 character password to open a password manager that itself uses 16-20 characters, "or more"?)
You don’t want to type in too many characters because the longer it is, the more likely you are to mess it up.
Once you get it open with your 12 chars, the password manager can do the heavy lifting of supplying long strings of not-human-eye-friendly characters that are hard to break.
Statistics: Posted by Nestegg_User — Fri Feb 07, 2025 11:18 pm — Replies 41 — Views 2770