005 – Passwords
Released Tuesday, 25th July 2017
005 – Passwords
005 – Passwords
Tuesday, 25th July 2017
- Authentication vs. Authorization
- One-factor, “something you know”
- Cleartext, hashes, salts
- Entropy, complexity
- https://xkcd.com/936/
- Two-factor, “something you have, something you know”
- Tokens, sms, totp
- Back them up! Authy will do this for you.
- Good/bad practices
- Don’t use things that can be gained by social engineering
- Your dogs name
- Mother’s maiden name
- Keys close together on the keyboard are bad (sequences like 12345, qwerty, etc)
- Don’t use dictionary words
- Don’t replace letters with numbers (4 for A, 3 for E, etc)
- Don’t reuse passwords on multiple sites
- Password Managers
- https://lastpass.com/f?38035982
- Dead Man’s Switch
- Password expiry
- Letter/number substitution
- Writing the password down??
- Don’t use things that can be gained by social engineering
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