Hello, So, nowadays just about every website is telling us to use strong passphrases for our logins and authentication stuff. I was wondering since we're mostly used to constructing passphrases out of printable characters like a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and punctuation. I think the total number of classic printable ASCII characters is 95. So whatever the password is, it will be limited to 95^n possible combinations where n is the password length. That got me thinking. Has anyone tried using the upper 128+ ASCII characters (Extended ASCII) in your passwords? Technically even just a single character would be sufficient to significantly strengthen the passphrase. I have to admit I've never used them before, but I am looking at possibilities. The only time I've ever tried them was in my PayPal account - tried to use the euro sign, but the website started bitchin about it so I had to drop it. It's a bit unusual to type them. On Windows platforms you would simply hold down alt and type a number in the keypad, but on linux you instead have to do something like: Ctrl (hold) + Alt (hold) + u + hex number + release ctrl and alt Does LUKS/LUKS2 support them? Can they be used in pre-boot authentication? _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
