Re: Unicode in passwords

From: Julian Bradfield <jcb+unicode_at_inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:25:40 +0100

On 2015-10-06, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Finally note that passwords are not necessarily single identifiers
> (whitespaces and word separators are accepted, but whitespaces should
> require special handling with trimming (at both ends) and compression of
> multiple occurences.

Why would you trim or compress whitespace? Using multiple spaces seems a
perfectly legitimate way of making a password harder to guess.

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