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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules (arstechnica.com)
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Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.

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[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On one hand, that's true. On the other hand, a person should only need exactly one passphrase, which is the one used to unlock their password manager. Every other password should be randomly-generated and would only contain space characters by chance.

[โ€“] naticus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

That's great in theory, but you'll have passwords for logging into OSes too which password managers do not help with and you better have it memorized or you're going to have a bad time.