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

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2012/9/11 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
> On 11 September 2012 15:13, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Good heavens. Now that is a character set that is getting out of control.
>
> But then I knew that when I first saw:
> http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/
>
> Although to be fair, whatever idiot thought they could fit every
> character in every human language into 16 bits was very, very ignorant
> indeed.

Not even Copyleft is included…



Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ


>
> But if we are now heading for 2²⁴ characters, that is also getting very silly.
>
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