I'm signing up for steam for playing a specific game.

Entered a freaking difficult/long password: "Choose a less commonly used password"

Yeah right, what in the actual fuck.

Correcthorsebatterystaple

Long, not so secure :p

Maybe they check the frequency of the hash. And your password is actually common, not unsafe.

@mpower I can't imagine this password being common cD

Anyways, just bought my first steam games and installing the first one! Linux compatible 😍

@linuxxx
Which game did u get? :D

@linuxxx I don't use passwords anymore, either key auth, or oauth2 or if I have to absolutely, then passphrase but never password. Well explained in this xkcd
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/...

@CloZee Orwell: Ignorance is Strength and Orwell: another one I forgot the name of 😅

@mpower They shouldn't be able to because of salting.

@linuxxx did you managed it with wine or steamOS or how?

@irene if that's saved in the database they could just drop the salted column since that's useless then.
And calculating the non-salted hash from salt and hash is not possible.
And rehashing the login password with the salt of every single user is not viable since that would probably take hours.

@jakobev Native Linux :)

@irene yeah you're right, didn't think about that

@linuxxx Nice! Last time I had a look about 40% of my steam games were compatible with Linux, so that's really promising.

@JellyWX

Also steam has a auto debit licence or whatever that is called where without any bank passwords or anything steam can debit money from your account. So its obvious you need an extra layer of security.

Was the password, “StIlLwAiTiNgFoRhALfLiFeThReE”
?

@FMashiro yeah because of xkcd lol https://xkcd.com/936/

“Applejackcheeriosformybrother” eh, probably not the best password.

@yendenikhil If you use a password manager, you have no problem, I get a lot of entropy, but I mean a lot

@-vim- What do you mean, "you get lot of entropy"? I understand password strength and entropy associated but did not understand you.

@Condor lol, and to remember?

Maybe not enter "a freaking difficult/long password" as your password.

@Condor I'm definitely going to look into it! And understand entropy in detail (software generated or hardware).. thanks!

What is it, tell it to us, maybe we can tell if its common 😏