Spaces in passwords

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Wed Apr 17 12:52:24 PDT 1996



Ben Rothke writes:
> Do spaces (ASCII 20) in passwords make them less secure?

Of course not. In a normal Unix password, adding spaces to the
password search space increases the search space, so it necessarily
makes the search harder.

.pm






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