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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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[–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

OK. How do you reconcile that with "Hashing passwords isn't even the best practice at this point"? Key derivation functions are certainly the recommended approach these days. If they are hashes, then your earlier post is wrong, and if they aren't hashes, then your next post was wrong.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The rest of that sentence is important. Hashing passwords is the minimum practice, not best practice. You should always be at least hashing passwords. Best practice would be salting and peppering them as well as picking a strong hashing function with as high a number of iterations as you can support. You would then pair that with 2FA (not SMS based), and a minimum password length of 16 with no maximum length.

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