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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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.
"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"
@kathakatze i never thought i'd need to worry about my password's *kerning*