4-Byte Hell: When Unicode Enters the Stage
2025-10-24 , Europe

How complex is your password really? Still using ASCII characters? Password managers aren't your friends - they trick you into weak passwords by limiting character sets in their generators. Consider giving emojis a try instead.


I'll briefly talk about how passwords get encoded and how to perform byte-wise password cracking with Hashcat. From there, we'll explore characters beyond ASCII and how they increase password complexity at the byte level.

Studying masters of computer science, working as a penetration tester.