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suggesting passwds to users
From: James Barkley <James.Barkley () noaa gov>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 03:19:38 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A user authenticates with a username/passwd and you not only give the user the option to change his/her password any time they want but also make it mandatory that they change their password at least once every so often (e.g. 6 months). You know that users are not good at choosing good passwords, but you happen to have a good application module for generating random strong passwords. So, when the user is at the change password page and about to type in "Mets4Ever" as their new password, why not give them a list of 10 or so cryptographically strong, randomly generated passwords as suggestions for them. Assuming you are using https, then this seems like reasonable security... or am I missing something? - -Jim Barkley -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCX2sJVtbq2E0xxN0RAu/qAJ9IniLfMUhKv2UpSweiXVfQn/wGRwCbBNQt zPNrsUoEcHrAlvIqbunriPM= =EYEs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Current thread:
- suggesting passwds to users James Barkley (Apr 18)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users Mark Owen (Apr 20)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users robert (Apr 21)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users Saqib Ali (Apr 20)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users James Barkley (Apr 20)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users Saqib Ali (Apr 20)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users SecurityFocus (Apr 21)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users James Barkley (Apr 20)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users Mark Owen (Apr 20)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users Kelly John Rose (Apr 20)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users Robert Hajime Lanning (Apr 20)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users Michael Silk (Apr 20)
- Re: suggesting passwds to users Martin Sarsale (Apr 20)