NIST recently published their four-volume SP800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines. Among other things, they make three important suggestions when it comes to passwords:
-Stop it with the annoying password complexity rules. They make passwords harder to remember. They increase errors because artificially complex passwords are harder to type in. And they don't help that much. It's better to allow people to use pass phrases.
-Stop it with password expiration. That was an old idea for an old way we used computers. Today, don't make people change their passwords unless there's indication of compromise.
-Let people use password managers. This is how we deal with all the passwords we need.
These password rules were failed attempts to fix the user. Better we fix the security systems.
Does this mean we can stop composing our passwords like Q*bert?
(Score: 5, Funny) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday October 11 2017, @12:44AM (1 child)
You could be in trouble if you ever need one foot amputated. If it's the left foot, you lose your master password. If it's the right, the surgeons might mistake that tattoo as a message for them and amputate your left and you still lose your password.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Thursday October 12 2017, @12:41AM
No, he'll be okay because he has "other foot" tattooed on the bottom of his feet.
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