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Hackers know half of passwords entered online, Cloudflare finds (cybernews.com)

submitted 1 day ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

My workplace has finally gone to passphrases and 1 year password life, which is nice as it's a password I often need to type, so I'd rather 20 easy to type and memorise chars than 16 random

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

The missleading thing about passphrases is that anything a human can remember is low entropy. That it has 20 charachers says nothing about how random.

Edit: I also wonder how much randomness is really needed. Properly salted and hashed passwords shoud not need that much randomness. Lot of this is about users just choosing bad passwords, reusing, and IT not properly salting and hashingon their end.