The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: August 8, 2017 at 4:34:12 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time
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> The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time
>
> http://gizmodo.com/the-guy-who-invented-those-annoying-password-rules-now-1797643987
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>      The man in question is Bill Burr, a former manager at the
>    National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In
>    2003, Burr drafted an eight-page guide on how to create secure
>    passwords creatively called the "NIST Special Publication
>    800-63. Appendix A." This became the document that would go on
>    to more or less dictate password requirements on everything
>    from email accounts to login pages to your online banking
>    portal. All those rules about using uppercase letters and
>    special characters and numbers--those are all because of Bill.
>    The only problem is that Bill Burr didn't really know much
>    about how passwords worked back in 2003, when he wrote the
>    manual. He certainly wasn't a security expert. And now the
>    retired 72-year-old bureaucrat wants to apologize.  "Much of
>    what I did I now regret," Bill Burr told The Wall Street
>    Journal recently, admitting that his research into passwords
>    mostly came from a white paper written in the 1980s, well
>    before the web was even invented. "In the end, [the list of
>    guidelines] was probably too complicated for a lot of folks to
>    understand very well, and the truth is, it was barking up the
>    wrong tree."



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