Glitch Don't End Passwords with Semicolon

[Slumpymaster]

So, there's a specific formatting I use for my passwords and it involved ending my password with a semicolon ( ; ). I would try to get online and play, but the launcher kept telling me my credentials were wrong and gave me the Error 501. I contacted the service and they told me to double check inputting my stuff. I then decided to take the semicolon off my password after changing it five or six times. Low and behold, I can suddenly play.

Moral of the story: Don't use semicolons in your passwords until the devs look into this problem.

 

[Mike Wass]

So, there's a specific formatting I use for my passwords and it involved ending my password with a semicolon ( ; ). I would try to get online and play, but the launcher kept telling me my credentials were wrong and gave me the Error 501. I contacted the service and they told me to double check inputting my stuff. I then decided to take the semicolon off my password after changing it five or six times. Low and behold, I can suddenly play.

Moral of the story: Don't use semicolons in your passwords until the devs look into this problem.

ProTip™ don't keep all of your passwords in a similar format. It makes it easier for hackers to figure out what your password will be then. (i.e a 10 character password is now essentially a 9 character password that needs to be cracked considering you already know the 10th character is a semi colon).

Edit:
Use this line of python to create a random password of 64 characters in length:

import os;print os.urandom(48).encode('base64')

At that kind of length it doesn't matter if there's a similar format being 64 characters and in base64 (64 characters to choose from in the password). It'd be 64^64 potential combinations for the password (as a decimal: 39402006196394479212279040100143613805079739270465446667948293404245721771497210611414266254884915640806627990306816).

 

[internetpirate]

ProTip™ don't keep all of your passwords in a similar format. It makes it easier for hackers to figure out what your password will be then. (i.e a 10 character password is now essentially a 9 character password that needs to be cracked considering you already know the 10th character is a semi colon).

Edit:
Use this line of python to create a random password of 64 characters in length:

import os;print os.urandom(48).encode('base64')

At that kind of length it doesn't matter if there's a similar format being 64 characters and in base64 (64 characters to choose from in the password). It'd be 64^64 potential combinations for the password (as a decimal: 39402006196394479212279040100143613805079739270465446667948293404245721771497210611414266254884915640806627990306816).

if anybody was wondering
to run this use a batch file with this code
Make sure you have a python version.

@echo off

:main
set python="C:\Python27\python.exe"
%python% (filename here)
pause
goto main