Just take the string as bytes and hash it ffs

  • Eiri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    You remind me of my bank about 17 years ago. Everyone had to have a 10-character password, exactly, and it had to include exactly 2 numbers and 1 symbol. I wasn’t very knowledgeable about computers at the time and it already felt dumb.

    • Wogi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      A few years ago my ISP pushed an update to my router that changed the password requirements, invalidating my passwords. Because I couldn’t enter the old password I also couldn’t change the password. I had to do a factory reset.

      • Glitterbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        ISP worker here. Our chosen routers default to an 8 digit password, the first 4 are the last 4 of the mac in hex, which anyone can easily see being broadcast by the wifi network. The last 4 are a part of a unique serial number, but its just 0-9. Ultimately, if you try to brute force this default password, you need 10000 tries. It takes a regular GPU 2 minutes with hashcat. It baffles my mind that companies think this is OK.

    • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Those cases where an english word gets absorbed even though no one from the origin talks like that. It’s also informally called underline here in Brazil lol.

  • guy_threepwood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I had one of those “fancy” Vodafone routers included with my broadband which had a stupid rule set on choosing the WiFi password. It’s my network, not yours, stupid router. It can be as insecure as I want.

    Anyway the rules were enforced by the JavaScript so it was easy to bypass until I got my own router to replace it with.