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>NIST recommendations thankfully have finally been updated Finally? It's almost been a decade since since special publication 800-63B was published recommendin

• vlovich123 2y ago
  The NIST guidelines have changed "should not" to "shall not" for 800-63B this year. The reason this is important is that the very first NIST guidelines recommended rotations and composition rules. Even after 800-63B was first published, people continued to use the earlier guidelines under the assumption it was better and the "should" wording let them keep doing it. The shall change should force a broader change which is why it's significant. Another notable change this year is the banning of security questions: > Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types) for passwords and > Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT require users to change passwords periodically. However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator. > Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types) for passwords. > Verifiers and CSPs SHALL NOT prompt subscribers to use knowledge-based authentication (KBA) (e.g., “What was the name of your first pet?”) or security questions when choosing passwords.