login fails with email adresses and/or passwords including "-" or "space"
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Description
for some reasons, keybase does not allow users to login if their email-adress and/or password includes minuses or space, leading to several of my contacts locked out.
Of course, the recovery function doesn't work for those users - espechally if they had logged in once into a device...
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reproducing login with email addresses and passwords containing hyphens or spaces, then trace the authentication flow; done means affected users can log in and use recovery without those characters causing failure.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- authentication
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100