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Non printable ASCII characters in pass phrase.

Jul 27, 2020, 9:24 PM

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Is it safe to have non printable ASCII characters in the pass phrase?

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Re: Non printable ASCII characters in pass phrase. [ In reply to ]

rjh at sixdemonbag

Jul 27, 2020, 10:39 PM

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> Is it safe to have non printable ASCII characters in the pass phrase?

GnuPG doesn't care, but your password manager might have problems or
your third-party pinentry or...

Best advice is to use printable UTF-8.

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