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• killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  mullvad.net/…/mullvads-account-numbers-get-longer…

  As they outline here, there are ~9 quadrillion possible keys. I think they hit a nice middleground between decent entropy and still having a number you can memorize (like a credit card).

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  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    people memorize their credit card numbers?

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    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nowadays, not so much. In the previous decades before password managers, card vaulting, apple pay and so on: yes, if you were typing it in or writing it on forms frequently, it wasn’t uncommon to just memorize it.

      My point though was that there is a limit to our ability to remember long and random alphanumeric strings, and I find credit card numbers to be that limit. UUIDs are longer and have a much bigger character set.

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      • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I never put my cc in any password manager, but I also mostly just use it for online payments where I don’t mind taking out the actual card to type the number in

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