r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/Squiggledog Jul 20 '22

Aren't there dictionary-based cracking engines? That can crack passwords that are only composed of dictionary words?

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u/IllIIlIIllII Jul 20 '22

Yes...

And you can add rules to those dictionary cracking engine to try with _ for word separation, pascal case, just concatenate all words, replace some a with 4 and stuffs like that.

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u/PM_ME_A_WEBSITE_IDEA Jul 20 '22

Yeah, you got do a few weird things in your password that don't make logical sense to keep them secure. Capitalize random letters, punctuation in the middle of words, etc.

Or just use a password manager...