4-Byte Hell: When Unicode Enters the Stage
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.
Jonas Hess
Studying masters of computer science, working as a penetration tester.