Comment by throwaway843
Comment by throwaway843 4 days ago
1234abcd@ it is then for all my accounts.
Comment by throwaway843 4 days ago
1234abcd@ it is then for all my accounts.
Don't tell them. I don't want to have to enter 30 characters. And it does not help for the people you'd need it for anyway.
1234567890a1234567890@1234567890
No, just longer to type. You can't fix stupid people by making the life of non-stupid people worse.
All you do is for non-stupid people to stop caring and do the easiest thing possible too.
In the corporate space you should move away from passwords entirely.
Smart cards have had pretty solid ecosystem support for the past two decades thanks to the U.S. Government and HSPD-12, and now we’ve got technologies like webauthn that make passwordless authentication even easier.
Every work laptop I've used had a smart card reader directly built into it and I've never used smart cards.
In the enterprise, the cost of inconvenience to users is effectively zero. Perhaps even negative as security theater can be a pretty effective way to convince management that something is being done.
I think if done right, typing that password should be more like a once a quarter exception rather than a daily occurrence.
Granted - there are blockers to getting there. IDK why for example, macOS can't use Touch ID from a cold boot, that's stupid, at least when there haven't been too many failed attempts or anything.
> macOS can't use Touch ID from a cold boot
Isn't that because the Secure Enclave (the only place which contains the Touch ID biometric data) is locked by your password?
"When a user's password is set up on an Apple Silicon Mac, the password is passed through a one-way hashing algorithm that produces a key used to encrypt the Secure enclave's key."[0]
[0] https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2023/04/14/the-security-encl...
Touch ID isn’t that secure. It’s fine for personal devices, but I wouldn’t trust it alone in a government or cooperate environment.
A ~1:50,000 error rate per finger added sounds fine, but lose a few laptops and have multiple valid fingerprints etc and the odds quickly look significantly worse. Or a janitor could end up trying to log into a significant number of machines etc.
You're only supposed to type your password at most once a day to sign into SSO.
Password rotation does nothing more than get you to use
I'm becoming pretty convinced that at least in the corporate space, we'd be way better off with a required 30 character minimum password, with the only rules being against gross repetition or sequences. (no a * 30 or abcd...yz1234567890 ). Teach people to use passphrases and work on absolutely minimizing the number of times people need to type it by use of SSO, passkeys, and password managers. Have them write it on a paper and keep it in a safe for when they forget it.This is a better use of the finite practical appetite for complying with policies than the idiotic "forcibly change it every 90 days" + "Your 8 character password needs to have at least one number, one uppercase, and one of these specific 8 characters: `! @ # $ % ^ & *`"
By the way, to quote Old Biff Tannen, "oh, you don't have a safe. GET A SAFE!"