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The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets It

posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 18 2017, @10:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the correct-horse-battery-staple dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

We've all been forced to do it: create a password with at least so many characters, so many numbers, so many special characters, and maybe an uppercase letter. Guess what? The guy who invented these standards nearly 15 years ago now admits that they're basically useless. He is also very sorry.

[The 2003 NIST guidance has been replaced by a new version of NIST Special Publication 800-63A, "Digital Identity Guidelines: Enrollment and Identity Proofing Requirements." which is basically a 180° reversal from the original. - Ed.]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987

Additional Coverage at The Wall Street Journal[paywalled]

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  • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Friday August 18 2017, @12:22PM (2 children)

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Friday August 18 2017, @12:22PM (#555849) Homepage Journal

    Now only if this guy rights a personal email to the head of IT in my company *sobs*

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @12:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @12:59PM (#555863)

    The head of the company would just dismiss that person as some random nobody.

  • (Score: 2) by WillR on Friday August 18 2017, @01:24PM

    by WillR (2012) on Friday August 18 2017, @01:24PM (#555865)
    It won't help. Even if the head of IT knows better, password policy will still have to conform to external audit's version of "best practices" that's 10 years behind the times.