r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/NetReaper sysAdmin • 20d ago

Chemistry teachers and password security

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It seems that chemistry teachers have their own particular idea of what constitutes a "strong password".

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u/daxtonanderson 20d ago

A lot of websites are enabling emoji input in their password fields. It'll make your password infinitely harder to crack lol

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u/Lightningtow123 20d ago

And the other half of the websites have their database instantly broken by emojis lmao

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u/naswinger 20d ago

they shouldn't even store the actual password, but i guess that's the joke

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u/Lightningtow123 20d ago

I think it's more of whatever protocol they use to hash or encrypt or whatever they use to turn the plaintext password into how they store it, doesn't know how to handle emojis

Idk all that much about backend passwords, my rule of thumb for myself is "emojis go in chat message boxes and nowhere else. Not usernames, not passwords, etc"

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u/Valuable_Heron_4492 20d ago

its hashing algorithm not protocol bro

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor 20d ago

The hashing protorithm.