Comments on: Secure passwords: the other side of the story http://floatingsun.net/2007/11/13/secure-passwords-the-other-side-of-the-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=secure-passwords-the-other-side-of-the-story Sat, 11 May 2013 19:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Peter L http://floatingsun.net/2007/11/13/secure-passwords-the-other-side-of-the-story/#comment-202434 Peter L Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:12:48 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2007/11/13/secure-passwords-the-other-side-of-the-story#comment-202434 The key word is ‘responsible’. That responsibility has to be applied on both ends: by the services/businesses/organizations in setting up their systems, as well as by the users.

]]> By: Tara Kelly http://floatingsun.net/2007/11/13/secure-passwords-the-other-side-of-the-story/#comment-19741 Tara Kelly Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:34:09 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2007/11/13/secure-passwords-the-other-side-of-the-story#comment-19741 Well said. :)

]]> By: Steve Loughran http://floatingsun.net/2007/11/13/secure-passwords-the-other-side-of-the-story/#comment-19727 Steve Loughran Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:20:57 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2007/11/13/secure-passwords-the-other-side-of-the-story#comment-19727 -length limits are lack of imagination, or use of fixed length fields in a database.
-special characters may be because they dont encrypt or escape the text and don’t want semicolons or quotes in there.

The problem I’m encountering these days is coming up with passwords that match our NT domain rules and are easy to type in a mobile phone. you only want to use the first character of every phone button for those…

]]> By: Odi http://floatingsun.net/2007/11/13/secure-passwords-the-other-side-of-the-story/#comment-19726 Odi Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:52:28 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2007/11/13/secure-passwords-the-other-side-of-the-story#comment-19726 A good reason not to allow the colon : character in usernames/passwords: BASIC authentication. The BASIC scheme reserves this character to separate the two… poor design really, but widely used.

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