I raise you "correct horse battery staple" and all his friends.
https://xkcd.com/936/
Quote:
Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully
trained everyone to use
passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to
guess.
I'm afraid all the proposed rules on T94774 fall into the same mould. The
approach of mandating a certain number of characters in each set, rather
than an entropy-based approach, forces users to create passwords that they
can't remember but isn't much harder for a machine to crack by brute-force.
And how are the rules gonna be implemented if someone uses non-ASCII
characters? I worry that this switch actually forces some users to switch
to *less* secure passwords because their current passwords are high-entropy
but don't contain the requisite set of characters.
Deryck
[T94774]:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94774
On 29 June 2015 at 16:58, Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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