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LessPass

lesspass.com/

Stateless password manager

• security_usability, tag
• security, tag
• passphrase, tag
• state, tag
• password, tag
• ·7 years ago

How To Safely Store A Password | codahale.com

codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

CUDA/OpenCL implementations of password crackers can leverage the massive amount of parallelism available in GPUs, peaking at billions of candidate passwords a second. You can literally test all lowercase, alphabetic passwords which are ≤7 characters in less than 2 seconds. And you can now rent the hardware which makes this possible to the tune of less than $3/hour.

• security, tag
• bcrypt, tag
• rainbow_tables, tag
• password, tag
• ·7 years ago

Grammar badness makes cracking harder the long password | Ars Technica

arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/grammar-badness-makes-cracking-harder-the-long-password/

Password crackers get an English lesson.

• security_usability, tag
• password, tag
• entropy, tag
• passphrase, tag
• cryptography, tag
• ·7 years ago

NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know – Naked Security

nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/18/nists-new-password-rules-what-you-need-to-know/

• password, tag
• security, tag
• guidelines, tag
• security_usability, tag
• authentication, tag
• ·7 years ago

One Shall Pass

oneshallpass.com/

• security, tag
• passphrase, tag
• site_specific, tag
• password, tag
• generator, tag
• encryption, tag
• hashing, tag
• ·9 years ago