How long is your phone's pin?

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What is the best length to make your phone’s pin in order to balance security and convenience?

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“best length” not sure but i use passphrase of 4 words and its convinient cause i type fast…

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I’m using GrapheneOS and only have a four character pin. If someone tries to brute force the password they’ll find themselves waiting longer and longer for another opportunity the guess.

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I use a 6 number pin

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Good point. What do you guys think? Is 4 digits enough?

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WOW! Super secure, but way too long for me

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8 digit PIN here

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Just had to show us up! :slight_smile:

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Welcome to the forum @defCONCEPT!

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I use 6-7 digits, which I change periodically. 4 digit pins are still reasonable against brute force (as long as it isn’t something noobish like 1234 or 1111), though they are more prone to shoulder-surfing attacks, since you only have to watch for and ingest 4 numbers. Maybe that is too granular of an analysis, but perhaps will resonate with someone.

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GrapheneOS shuffles the digits, so the numbers aren’t where you’d expect them to be.

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I think I’ll stick with 4 digits for now, it’s the most convenient and still pretty secure.

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9 characters altogether, I use a mix of numbers, symbols and letters though that are easy for me to remember.

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Right now mine is 7 characters, but thinking of extending that out. Same for my duress PIN.

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After thinking about this, I’ve changed my pin to be 6 digits.

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Nice try FBI

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  • mossad :wink::rofl:
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I recently changed my pin to 8 digits, takes getting used to but worth it.

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I might need to up it to 10…