Homemade special personal characters on nano level to be used in passwords

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:19:42PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> >
> > What I meant was passwords which these newest super computers cannot
> > break because there should be an endless number of characters, that is
> > why I call in nano?
> 
> What on Earth are you talking about?
> 
> You can't have an endless number of characters, in other words, an
> infinitely long password, because you'd never be able to enter it - it
> would take infinitely long to type and you'd die before you entered it
> the first time on the "pick a new password" screen.
> 
> You cannot choose from an infinite number of characters in a password
> of fixed length, either, because computers do not offer an endless
> choice of characters. You get about 65,535 of them in the Unicode
> character set - that really should be enough.

Nitpick: there are 1,114,112 codepoints in Unicode, that 65,535 number
is just those in the Basic Multilingual Plane.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Architecture_and_terminology

Marius Gedminas
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