On 24.04.2017 07:50, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> On 22.04.2017 20 <tel:22.04.2017%2020>:02, protagonist wrote:
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> > I've manually compiled
> ...
>
>
as the password has been written down on
paper the old-fashioned way, I have decided to take it as a "known good"
value.
One can speculate about the password being wrong on paper, or some
laptop-specific oddity, but as the owner had been entering it daily for
more than a year, I don't think a simple single-character swap for
neighboring keys or capitalization changes will help. In other
situations, they might, and bruteforce complexity only grows linearly
with the number of changes and password length, respectively, if one
looks for a single error, so it's definitely something to consider for
passwords that can't be remembered perfectly.