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NIST recommendation: Use random generated passwords
- fulldecent 10y agoNIST has a draft recommendation regarding password security in SP 800-63B. This issue discusses amending this to have systems generate a randomized password. This would be preferred rather than users generating their own passwords. The idea is to fix the problem of password reuse (XKCD 792).
- pixpop 10y agoDoesn't that result in them being written down? How do you remember fifty or so randomly generated passwords?
- fulldecent 10y agoYou don't. If you can remember it, it will be guessed by a script.