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Password complexity rules more annoying, less effective than length ones
- Afforess 13y agoI agree. I have a much, much harder time remembering complex passwords over longer ones. I can barely remember my SSN, and that's about the length for complex patterns of numbers/symbols for most people. Long strings for passwords should be the norm. I have no problems coming up with 30-50 char long passwords from scenes in my favorite book, Alice in Wonderland. They aren't ever going to be cracked by a dictionary, they aren't direct quotes, aren't all the same case, and are unique. (It's much easier to remember a long string based on each site than it is a random jumble of letters). I eagerly await the day my bank lets me use longer passwords... Before anyone suggests a password management tool, I inherently distrust them. They are a single point of failure.
- informatimago 13y agoProbability to find the substring "fucking" in passwords with complex rule close to 1. And indeed complex rule passwords (not the same thing as complex passwords), WILL be written somewhere.