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Knowing a password consists of three random words makes it significantly easier to guess it. Knowing a password contains at least a digit and a special symbol
by RyEgswuCsn 5y ago
Knowing a password consists of three random words makes it significantly easier to guess it. Knowing a password contains at least a digit and a special symbol and a upper-case letter does not make the password much easier to guess, and, as others have pointed out, it encourages the use of password managers.
- Cycl0ps 5y agoPassword complexity tends to more harm than good. Users aren't that creative and nearly every password falls into the pattern (A-Z)\w\d!. If we assume that users pad out to the bare minimum length then mandatory complexity actually reduces entropy because we know more specifically what characters are at the beginning and end.
- DicIfTEx 5y ago> it encourages the use of password managers The issue being that the users who have to remember their passwords are often not the same people who decide whether or not to authorise the use of password managers.