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posted by mrpg on Tuesday October 10 2017, @09:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the gud1dea dept.

Schneier on Security:

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @11:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 10 2017, @11:25PM (#580153)

    It dates back to old systems where you have read-access to the hashed password database.

    It has nothing to do with password sharing.

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