I raise you "correct horse battery staple" and all his friends. https://xkcd.com/936/
Quote: > Through 20 years of effort, we've successfully trained everyone to use > passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to > guess. I'm afraid all the proposed rules on T94774 fall into the same mould. The approach of mandating a certain number of characters in each set, rather than an entropy-based approach, forces users to create passwords that they can't remember but isn't much harder for a machine to crack by brute-force. And how are the rules gonna be implemented if someone uses non-ASCII characters? I worry that this switch actually forces some users to switch to *less* secure passwords because their current passwords are high-entropy but don't contain the requisite set of characters. Deryck [T94774]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94774 On 29 June 2015 at 16:58, Guillaume Paumier <gpaum...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, > > The latest technical newsletter is now available at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/27 . > Below is the English version. > > You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about > Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you > can add it to the next newsletter at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next. > > More information on how to contribute is available at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . 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