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Kathakathakatze@chaos.social
Oct 11, 2026, 12:11 PM
Reminder: forced password rotation is a bad thing and must be avoided.
Because all the characters will slide towards one side, the resulting distribution will not be random, but very skewed.
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Kathakathakatze@chaos.social
Oct 11, 2026, 12:22 PM
"Please rotate your password!"
*sigh*
> assword123!P
"no, not like that, that's shifting!"
> Password123!*e^i2π
"your new password cannot be identical to your old one"
> Password123!*e^iπ
"password updated successfully"
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cfr34kcfr34k@chaos.social
Oct 11, 2026, 12:34 PM
@kathakatze
> Password123!*e^i0.25π
"password is too complex"
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Klaus SteinLapizistik@social.tchncs.de
Oct 14, 2026, 1:36 PM
@cfr34k @kathakatze
But you don't need to use a complex one, just use a fully imaginary password.
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TheZoq2thezoq2@mastodon.social
Oct 11, 2026, 6:32 PM
@kathakatze Even worse if you rotate it often enough for centrifugal effects to kick in. Then the characters will be sorted by weight
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Klaus SteinLapizistik@social.tchncs.de
Oct 14, 2026, 11:57 AM
@kathakatze
Oh, and the heavier (bold) letters will accumulate at the lower side while the lighter ones will pop to the top.
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