It turns out that emoticons are considered a symbol, so they can beef up your passwords and make them more secure in combination with letters and numbers. Here’s how.
and there are many trash implementations that dont recognise something like :emoticon: as shortcut and turn it into emoji, no no you have to use emoji keyboard to type them
Well you actually make your password a lot stronger if it doesn’t replace :emoticon: with a single UTF character. (N_utf)^(len+1) is almost certainly smaller than (N_ascii)^(len+10) with N_utf ~= 200k, N_ascii = 94 ; the latter beats the former at len=6
and there are many trash implementations that dont recognise something like :emoticon: as shortcut and turn it into emoji, no no you have to use emoji keyboard to type them
Well you actually make your password a lot stronger if it doesn’t replace :emoticon: with a single UTF character. (N_utf)^(len+1) is almost certainly smaller than (N_ascii)^(len+10) with N_utf ~= 200k, N_ascii = 94 ; the latter beats the former at len=6