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Aug 28

Everything I’ve ever said about passwords was wrong

Well, not quite, but there is one fundamental thing about passwords that I and almost every other security expert has overlooked. For a long, long time, we in the security business have been thinking about maximal strength, maximum entropy, minimal length passwords; we have been saying things like “minimum eight characters, upper and lower case …

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