Emoji Password Generator – A random little side project

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5 pointschrisshennan2 comments

Correct me if this is a misunderstanding, but wouldn't allowing Emoji inside passwords make them more secure? I assume that would make brute force attacks dramatically more difficult while also making passwords somewhat more memorable.

That would be my understanding too as it opens up a much larger character set but there are a number of caveats such as

On the user side: the ability to remember them and accurately enter them across different devices. This is much harder if you consider not using a password manager.

On the server side: The database needs to be able to handle storing them. Projects I've worked on using MySQL5.6 can't handle emojis but others using MySQL5.7 work with them just fine.

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