What is your favourite password rule?

  • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Got this site once stating “passwords can’t contain parts of username” icw a 64 character pw.

    And usenames like “daneelolivaw” block passwords with

    da an ne ee el…

    dan ane nee eel …

    dane anee neel… etc in them

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      If I was a bad guy and saw this, I would look for users with many different charaters in long names and brute force them, because there’s a high chance they just removed all characters in their names from the pool to generate a password, making it faster to go through the leftover combinations.