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[-] rog@lemmy.one 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Best practice in 2023 is a simple, sufficiently long but memorable passphrase. Excessive requirements mean users just create weak passwords with patterns.
[Capital letter]basic word(number){special character}

Enforcing password changes doesnt help either. It just creates further patterns. The vast majority of compromised credentials are used immediately or within a short time frame anyway. Changing the password 2 months later isnt going to help and passwords like July2023!, which are common, are weak to begin with.

A non expiring, long, easily remembered passphase like
forgetting-spaghetti-toad-box
Is much more secure than a short password with enforced complexity requirements.

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 year ago

Drop "memorable". 99.9% of your passwords should be managed by your password manager and don't need to be memorized. On one or two passwords that you actually need to type (like your computer login) need to be memorable.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I am kinda paranoid about password managers. My passwords are stored somewhere on the computer, all of them, and I don't like that idea. I can exercise my brain.

[-] Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 points 1 year ago

I've been using keepassxc for a while now and it's better than most other options, everything is stored locally and encrypted behind a master password.

All you micht want to do is make a backup of your vault onto an external drive (best practice would be encrypted via the options you have, I use luks because I'm a Linux nerd).

[-] livendie@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Have my password database backed up over multiple places, GPG encrypted of-coarse, you can never be too safe.

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