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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This also leads to stupid rules like you can’t change your password more than once a day, to prevent someone from changing their password 5 times and then changing it back to what it was before.