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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules (arstechnica.com)

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Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I do 256 so I hopefully never need to update it, but most of my passwords are 20-30 characters or something, and generated by my password manager. I don't care if you choose to write a poem or enter a ton of unicode, I just need a bunch of bytes to hash.