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> A password manager can be an extra 10 seconds of work up front in some edge cases There is always a trade-off in security vs. comfort. To me, having a comple
by usrbinbash 5y ago
> A password manager can be an extra 10 seconds of work up front in some edge cases
There is always a trade-off in security vs. comfort. To me, having a completely secure authentication method that is simple and doesn't rely on any third party services, blorkchains etc. and is completely under my control, is important enough to be worth the occasional 10 seconds of work.
> another rough edge case is when the autogenerated password doesn’t match the password requirements
Which is why the generator I use allows me to set the character set & max length.
- noahtallen 5y agoWhich is why I use a password manager, of course :) There simply should not have to be this trade off. I know how to adjust the generator for the rules. But on my phone, that’s a fair amount of extra work and you have to know how to do it. For non-tech peers, they won’t know how to learn that, and they’ll likely not understand the trade-off well enough to do it anyways. So we’re back at the beginning: passwords need to be secure by default — without going through any extra steps, or we need a different approach that is secure without extra work.