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Traditional password advice and rules are seldom appropriate for today's threats, yet we labor with the password rules and servers of yesteryear. Strong passwords are weakening our security, and it is time to fix that. There are numerous proposals for new password solutions. This session will present a few half-baked ideas, but there are good solutions available now. We ought to get this easy stuff right!

SPEAKER: William Cheswick, Lead Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T

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Feb 01, 2013 · atsaloli on Limiting passwords to 12 characters is "secure enough"

Bill Cheswick, of the "Firewalls and Internet Security; Repelling the Wily Hacker" fame, gives a great talk called "Rethinking Passwords" calling for a better solution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRVRlhrLKkI [video, 22 min] http://web.cheswick.com/ches/talks/rethink.pdf [slides]

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