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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also there's the no space space. But that's really only useful in hacking bad implementations of html parsers or putting in your code you post online to mess with people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's the "zero width space," Alt + 200B for Windows users. Another favorite of mine is the nonbreaking space, Alt + 0160, which a staggering majority of web sites and other systems fail to account for.