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1. thedoo+2w[view] [source] 2023-08-05 19:48:06
>>mikece+(OP)
I don't use the qwerty layout, I use colemak. Likely this mitigates this for myself.
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2. bqmjjx+rw[view] [source] 2023-08-05 19:51:29
>>thedoo+2w
This is just security through obscurity. For real security, you need a cryptographically rolling keyboard layout.
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3. usrusr+WH[view] [source] 2023-08-05 21:22:42
>>bqmjjx+rw
Whereas for practical security, having some common substring in all your passwords that you don't type but insert through some global hotkey would be just fine as a mitigation against eavesdrop attacks.

Yes, that's also obscurity, but obscurity is actually good - it only got a (deservedly) bad reputation from when it gets used as a substitute (but I fail to see how using a nonstandard keyboard layout would even count as obscurity in the context of an audio attack, as the clear text reference would surely go through the same layout?)

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