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Reduce the set of default special characters to only the most commonly accepted. #14
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I've contacted Moritz Horsch to ask if his PRD database is publicly available. It would be nice to actually run some stats instead of guessing which symbols are the best. |
Some sets fo consider: Most Frequently-Used Special Characters in 10 Million Passwords The 1337-speak set
The #$@&-ing swear word set
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I never thought I would ever say this, but let's go l33t. |
The leet set contains things that I believe are more likely to be problems on sites ( |
I agree on |
Currently, our default is symbol set is
"!#%)*+,-.:=>?@]^_}~"
. We should reduce that dramatically to those things that are going to be most widely accepted.Note that in the past, @robyoder made recommendations along these lines, as has @mitchchn. @dteare has expressed interest.
In broader terms, I did try to encourage a broader open project to build upon work that has been going on.
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