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Reduce the set of default special characters to only the most commonly accepted. #14

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jpgoldberg opened this issue Mar 20, 2019 · 5 comments

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@jpgoldberg
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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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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.

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mitchchn commented Mar 21, 2019

Some sets fo consider:

Most Frequently-Used Special Characters in 10 Million Passwords
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2vfgvh/most_frequentlyused_special_characters_in_10/

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.

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The leet set contains things that I believe are more likely to be problems on sites (& and $). So might want to use . and - instead.

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I agree on &$. I think we should start with _-.!@ from the most frequently used list.

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