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I use a password generator (30 characters, numbers, upper/lower case, special chars, ...) and upon being forced to generate a new one it somehow ran afoul of $c
by the8472 7y ago
I use a password generator (30 characters, numbers, upper/lower case, special chars, ...) and upon being forced to generate a new one it somehow ran afoul of $corporate-policy, probably not exactly the right mix of special characters. After several tries I gave up and just incremented the old one.
I could have looked up the exact policy and adjusted the generator. But if the policy rejects passwords with more entropy than most people memorize then I am not particularly motivated to play along.
The same corporate policy also forbids bcrypt password hashing and suggests using SHA2 instead because bcrypt is not "industry standard". Offering to use scrypt or argon2 instead so far has been met with silence.
It makes me question the expertise behind any security the company has.