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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @12:10AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @12:10AM (#580176)

    https://www.prod.facebook.com/help/159096464162185 [facebook.com]

    What types of ID does Facebook accept?

    If you need to confirm your name on Facebook, or if you've lost access to your account, you may be asked to send us a copy of something with your name on it. You have several different options for this, including photo IDs that are issued by the government, IDs from non-government organizations, official certificates or licenses that include your name or other physical items like a magazine subscription or a piece of mail.

    Any time you send us something that confirms your name or identity, please cover up any personal information we don't need to see (ex: credit card number, Social Security number). Also keep in mind that we encrypt everyone's connection to Facebook by default and delete anything that you've sent to us after we've confirmed your name or identity.

  • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Wednesday October 11 2017, @01:15PM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Wednesday October 11 2017, @01:15PM (#580439) Journal

    If you need to confirm your name on Facebook, or if you've lost access to your account, you may be asked to send us a copy of something with your name on it.

    And that really annoys me, I havn't signed up with my real name for anything in more than a decade (only about 60% of my friends know my real name, almost all knows this username however). Also how does it deal with name changes?

    Why on earth would I sign up on a social networking site with a name very few people call me? (Not even my coworkers call me by my name, they instead uses one of the three irl-nicknames I have. I know some of them don't know my name) And it can be years between the times when I hear someone call me by my real name.