Dex

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Dex
@Dex

people theorize about the possibility of using keysmashes to generate secure passwords

however, how cryptographically secure is a good keysmash? in this essay i will


kda
@kda

probably pretty bad?

Keysmashes are often really predictable, and you can totally narrow down the range of keysmashes that one might produce based on what keyboard they're using (some keyboards can't handle n arbitrary keystrokes simultaneously, and will disregard some of them!), what keyboard layout they're using, how they learned to type, factors that might influence how they move their fingers in repetitive fashions, so on so forth.

Like, they're pretty random, but it's a fairly constrained kind of randomness.


Dex
@Dex

basically this

you either end up with a bad password

or you end up with a keysmash where the vibes are simply wrong

i just generated a random password - mEEXJQxhQ7IZmWVGQDI0 - and there's so many things that would make it weird as a keysmash particularly assuming a QWERTY layout, specifically hands being so close to the edge without hitting any special characters, the precision with which shift seems to have been hit (or repeatedly hitting capslock)


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