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The Password Game

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Re: The Password Game

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Managed to make it almost all the way to the end! Note that "is this your final password?" is not the last challenge, despite it being the last thing on the lists other people have posted. Afterward you're asked to retype your password which is almost impossible to do, given that it's in various sizes (with any zeroes at font size zero) and partially in windings. I recommend copy/pasting before you get there. It does…

I'm impressed you were able to not get tangled up by the youtube/captcha/color hex/roman numeral mess! The youtube one is what screwed me over and over out of all my attempts

"00:00 / :" youtube

Google that, including the quotes, replace the minutes and seconds with your given time, then look through the results and find a URL which fits the password criteria.

Every result should be a video with that duration. If it isn't, check your useragent. I noticed some weirdness with that.

Re: The Password Game

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This is now my new favorite way to explain to people that passwords should not exist. Long live FIDO2 and passkeys.

I don't think passwords will be replaced. This is more of a demonstration of over complicated password rules, than against passwords itself. Hardware and biometric keys can be stolen, cloned and lost. And trusting third-parties with keys to harddrive encryption is also not really trustworthy.

1. You can have multiple hardware keys or devices bound to an account as a backup of for ease of use.

2. Passkeys allow you to pick a backup solution of your choosing. Could be your own nextcloud server in the corner. This is no different than giving someone a choice of cloud-synced password manager

Both solutions avoid phishing, password re-use, keylogging, or people picking weak passwords.

There is no excuse for anyone even supporting passwords at this point. Sysadmins have not commonly used passwords for ssh in 20 years, favoring private keys on either hardware or encrypted disks. Keys better than passwords-over-the-wire in every way.

Re: The Password Game

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I spent forever trying to find a YouTube video that was precisely 16m18s, and when I finally did, the video ID included periodic elements and Roman numerals that broke my earlier rules, and I gave up. Fun game though!

I'll copy a comment I made earlier:

"00:00 / :" youtube

Google that, including the quotes, replace the minutes and seconds with your given time, then look through the results and find a URL which fits the password criteria.

Every result should be a video with that duration. If it isn't, check your useragent. I noticed some weirdness with that.

Re: The Password Game

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I lost at rule 35 (out of 36) because I overfed Paul.

Some tips I gathered: 9. Use XXXV, as the chemical symbols contained in (V,VII) add up 152, which is already very close to 200 for rule 18; 10. Refresh the captcha so that it only includes lowercase letters, you'll need numbers later and they can't add up to more than 25 according to rule 5; 14. Pray for having a country with a short name, whose first letter isn't also a chemical element and that includes common letters (curse you Zimbabwe); 15. I think 4 is a leap year... 17. Put Paul at the start or the end of your password; 19. You can bold the whole string to meet the condition, but beware of rule 26. Also, before meeting the condition, copy-paste your password elsewhere; 20. Just select the fire and some more characters and delete them, then fill the gap from your copy-pasted password; 22. Use "i am loved" (all lowercase, cf. rule 18) as you'll need to sacrifice two letters for rule 25, but you will already use 'o' for youtu.be, 'v' for XXXV, 'e' for youtu.be, and probably 'l' and 'd' in your captcha, URL (cf. rule 24) or color (cf. rule 28). Also, it's the shorter word of the three, and for rules 32 and 33 it's simpler to add padding symbols than to remove mandatory characters to control the length of the password; 23. Try to have between 2 and 6 max worms at any time, it should give you enough time to think without overfeeding Paul. 9 worms will definitely kill Paul (maybe less, but 6 should be safe); 24. On Chrome, you can use the "YouTube Time Filter" extension to find videos of the correct timelength. On YouTube, type a very generic request (like "game", "car", or even just "p"), open the filters and choose "Video" (to filter out shorts) as well as a length range (to reduce client-side filtering) then in the YouTube Time Filter insert a length range one second before and one second after the required range (the game has a one second leniency). Then scroll and scroll. Of course, once you find a suitable video, strip any superfluous parameter from its length, and make sure that the video id doesn't include any uppercase 'M', 'D', 'C', 'X' (because those roman numerals don't multiply to 35, cf. rule 9) and preferably no 'V' or 'I' (because of rules 9 and 18). It's hard, but with a bit of patience, it doable. Also use the short URL (youtu.be, not youtube.com) and trim the "https://www.", you don't need them; 25. If you applied those tips correctly and you were lucky on the captcha and the country, you should be able to strip the letters 'w' and 'z' at the very least. Other letters if you were very lucky (maybe try to choose another month for rule 6 if it can make you unuse a letter, or maybe you should have used "i am enough" ?); 26. Just put the whole string in italics; 28. Refresh until you have a color without numbers (or 0 at most), for rule 5; 32. It's better to have 123 characters than 97 (cf. rule 5); 33. Sorry, I meant 113. Other probable candidates, depending on your current password length are: 101, 103, 113, 131, 151, 211, 223, 233, 311 and 313. Other numbers are fine too, but it's up to you to see if you can have them depending on your URL and chess move. Maybe include 8 padding symbols at the end of the password, in prevision to rule 35. Know that the length will vary when you feed Paul, but the length should usually be correct; 34. Just skip this one, really; 35. Unfortunately, I didn't pass that one as I overfed Paul, but I think it would be easier to play around midnight, ideally at 00:00:00, because you know, rule 5. But make sure to write it at 23:59 and change the police size to 0px before midnight, so every rule can be met at midnight. Not sure if the seconds are needed or not, since I didn't pass it.

Re: The Password Game

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This turns into a mildly frustrating riddle as some of the challenges are random (captcha, Street View, chess challenge) and end up making it impossible to continue. Got my number added up from the captcha and the best chess move came to be Qh6 (I would need a chess master to disagree with me) so I'm already busted on the add to 25 and then it tells me the "Qh6" notation is illegal (Ok, I was never good with chess no…

I also had to figure out how to enter chess notation. As it turns out you have to add "x" after the piece if you want to capture or "+" suffix for check.

For the chess solution I ended up putting a breakpoint in the Javascript. To each their own.

Re: The Password Game

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Gave up at the YouTube video. My final password: cmabout[gibbous emoji]swedenQf8+[chicken emoji]Tir8gecmVshellapril9Fe[weightlifter][weightlifter][weightlifter]VIIamloved[caterpillar][caterpillar][caterpillar][caterpillar]

Should help https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36499194

Re: The Password Game

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

by searching for the length in your favourite search engine :)

There doesn't seem to be a way to search YT videos (except videos you yourself post) by exact length. I got 21 min 45 seconds. Looking up "3000 second timer" on YT got me close (only 4 seconds out), but not exact. Do you have a way to find exact-length videos that I'm missing?

I figured out a way to get a list of videos all matching the time you want. Should help. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36499194

Re: The Password Game

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Well, my chess move is Nd3+, and Nd gives an atomic number of 60. That plus V and VII gives 212. Adding an “n” to VII reduces it to 208, but I am screwed, no password for me…

XXXV also works

Jesus, of course thanks

Re: The Password Game

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the chess one is bugged. I've entered every possible move for the board I received and none of them worked. Edit: figured it out

Isn't Q×h6+ the best move for white, since there is a mate in 1 after that move. Am I missing something?

Enter without ×.

Re: The Password Game

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I lost at rule 35 (out of 36) because I overfed Paul. Some tips I gathered: 9. Use XXXV, as the chemical symbols contained in (V,VII) add up 152, which is already very close to 200 for rule 18; 10. Refresh the captcha so that it only includes lowercase letters, you'll need numbers later and they can't add up to more than 25 according to rule 5; 14. Pray for having a country with a short name, whose first letter isn't…

To add a couple of things to this: 9. I use XXXV (23), He (2), Fm (100), these make it easier to adjust the symbols later on. 15. 0 is a leap year 20. Ctrl+Backspace will delete the whole fire if you place your cursor at the end of it 24. If you type your exact time into youtube (e.g. 32:15) you will find many videos with that length, bad thing about this solution however is that if you're given a time that can also be a date (e.g 21:01) you'll just get a bunch of news broadcasts from that day.

Also I think the limit for Paul is 5 caterpillars, I keep it at 4 just to be safe though.

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