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.
On the upside, you could probably satisfy length and complexity requirements with just one emoji. ;)
So add all emojis to my dictionary, got it
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.
Longer passwords make your passwords exponentially more secure, in terms of security bits. Length matters.
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
doesn't matter much, when your password manager is doing the entering
Login passwords are not something your pw manager can type.
~~They absolutely can~~
EDIT: Not for OS logins
I believe they mean your OS login, which it cannot
Good point, I thought he meant other logins for some reason.
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 🤷
Can you store emojis in KeePass ? 🤔
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.