DicIfTEx

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by DicIfTEx 5y ago
Expanding on this, is it possible to quantify the effect on entropy of the words in a passphrase being semantically related rather than randomly-chosen? Without being a cryptographer/statistician, my gut feeling is it would involve Mar
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by 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.
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At least in the UK, the Cyber Essentials scheme (increasingly becoming a bare minimum cyber hygeine cert. there, and required for any business that wants to work with HM Gov) has sane password requirements.[0] Enforcing a maximum password l
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by DicIfTEx 5y ago
The final section of the article about ‘password diversity’[0] is interesting to me; allow me to think aloud for a little bit. Whilst I appreciate the recent shift to advising passphrases (and password managers, but that's a different
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Do Dropbox not automatically flag ‘correcthorsebatterystaple’ any more?[0] [0] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/13/correcthorsebatt...
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I certainly wouldn't put it past them[0], and then we can look forward to “The logic behind more than three random words” [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27021377
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The logic behind three random words(ncsc.gov.uk)
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by DicIfTEx 5y ago
I was in the exact same position, and I can't recommend Ruhlman's Twenty enough. It goes through 20 techniques/ingredients, from ‘Water’ and ‘Onions’ to ‘Roast’ and ‘Boil’, giving you all the information you might possibly
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by DicIfTEx 5y ago
Speaking of Wirth, he wrote a similar essay to the OP: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig....
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> Others, like myself, focus on the higher probability but less attention grabbing situations like multi-day power outages, supply chain disruptions, and low-cost-high-ROI investments. You've reminded me of this piece: https:/
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by DicIfTEx 5y ago
> I don't think GitHub shows it in the UI Add `.patch` to the end of the URL when viewing a commit to view the full commit, including user information. E.g., ‘ https://github.com/<repo>/commit/<hash
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The cynic in me expects we'd see vociferous lobbying from the usual suspects for endless expansion of what traffic falls under the excluded ‘emergency’ category.
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Anton Schmid [0] said something similar: ‘We all must die. But if I can choose whether to die as a murderer or a helper, I choose death as a helper.’ [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Schmid
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As immortalised in song by David Rovics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcFAhFWyuP0
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Complete with a cautionary tale about the dangers of being too creative: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/...