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.
Please, don’t use subjects like “I love this”. Please.
Fair point, will do… at some point in the future.
Edit #1: You people are expecting way too much reasonability from someone using emojis to login.
Edit #2: Urgh! FINE. Have your sensible title that actually means something and betters everyones experience. angrily sips water >:(
Using emoji is a bad idea.
Here is why (without a password manager which removes the hard, but not the incompatible) :
- some emojis can be inexistent on other devices. So you may not be able to log in on another device.
- An emoji is hard to remember if you need to type them with an alt code, while also being easy to crack.
- For a computer, and emoji is nothing else than a character. So hard to type, easy to crack.
- More likely you use an emoji someone else used. So it could maybe be easier to crack.
And you don’t need to believe me https://nordpass.com/blog/emoji-passwords/
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If you make it a policy for your corp. You will screw anyone with visual impairment.
We are totally unable to see the detail in these shitty little pics. So would be unable to use them as a password.
Fine if uou want to use them. And software should start supporting it. But please dont push corps to screw over disabled. Its hard enough dealing with them already. Nearly every big company forgets vision or hearing impairment when trying to manage customers and staff.
I don’t think anyone takes this seriously. It’s just fun to come up with the worst password policies.
Just imagine the error: “Sorry, your password could not be set. If you decide to include more than one animal, make sure they get along or include a zookeeper as well.”
Fucking brilliant.
Anything Unicode. You could use box drawing characters.
The Interrogator: “You think you’re so funny… WHAT. IS. THE. PASSWORD!!!”
A guy, tied to a chair, bloodied and crying: “Amogus, it’s a drawing of the Amogus guy.”
The interrogator prepares another round of fists
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.
And here I am avoiding even special characters because I worry about having to enter them on a French keyboard at some point.
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.
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.
