Hi, Diederik de Haas <didi.deb...@cknow.org> wrote (Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:57:10 +0100): > On Monday, 4 March 2024 10:43:59 CET Holger Wansing wrote: > > >Regarding the password advice, I ended up concluding that it's pretty > > >unlikely that anything we say at this point will have any effect on > > >people's behaviour, but then I'm probably just an old cynic. Also, I > > >failed when trying to come up with a wording which I was happy with, > > >which is why I ended up discarding the advice entirely. > > > > > >If we want to keep the password advice in then I think what you wrote is > > >(mostly) OK, although I think it implies that one should be choosing a > > >single "password" (although, not a word in any normal sense), which > > >could be argued to steer people away from the perfectly decent xkcd > > >approach of using several dictionary words. Saying "Password or > > >Passphrase" at least once would probably address that. > > > > Ok, makes it a bit longer, but it could be worth it. > > https://wiki.debian.org/Passwords doesn't exist (yet), but it's an easy to > remember URL and we'd have all the space we need to give proper advise?
Would need to check if that fits in the relevant screens (I want to avoid having a scroll bar on that screens). Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076