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Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format

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430 points tambourine_man | 5 comments | 18 Oct 24 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
1. tiffanyh ◴[18 Oct 24 14:01 UTC] No.41879565[source]▶
While I generally like Apple format, it still fails due to including ambiguous characters.

Such as: i, I, l, L, o, O, 0,

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2. explodingwaffle ◴[18 Oct 24 14:12 UTC] No.41879655[source]▶
At least in my iOS 18 Passwords app, the passwords are shown in a monospace font that (probably deliberately) differentiates all these (e.g. a slashed zero).
3. kccqzy ◴[18 Oct 24 14:14 UTC] No.41879672[source]▶
That's why my own password generator on my phone (which predates any password generation by iOS) uses base58 encoding.
4. unit149 ◴[18 Oct 24 14:56 UTC] No.41880021[source]▶
Key generation on iOS 12 is unlike generating entropy during AES encryption through a mouse.
5. mmooss ◴[18 Oct 24 20:18 UTC] No.41883085[source]▶
It's less of an issue on high-resolution screens.