This is what password managers were created for. I use Bitwarden, and can't recommend them highly enough.
On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 9:13 AM Pommier, Rex <[email protected]> wrote: > You make a good point about making security so onerous one can't use it. > At my employer, we use a third party cloud application (unnamed to conceal > the perpetrator) that doesn't use multi-factor yet. However their password > to get in has to be a minimum of 16 characters. No problem, right, just > use a passphrase type password. However, they also require upper, lower, > number, and special character. And they keep a history of 10 prior > passwords and require a change every 60 days. Their requirements pretty > much guarantee most people will be writing the passwords down, thus > bypassing a lot of the security they think they have. > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
