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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules(arstechnica.com)

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Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.

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grue@lemmy.world
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On one hand, that’s true. On the other hand, a person should only need exactly one passphrase, which is the one used to unlock their password manager. Every other password should be randomly-generated and would only contain space characters by chance.

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That’s great in theory, but you’ll have passwords for logging into OSes too which password managers do not help with and you better have it memorized or you’re going to have a bad time.

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