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| | pboyd.io
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| | Here's a fun list to look through: Dumb Password Rules. Most of the rules seem arbitrary, like only allowing digits, but some hint at deeper problems. For instance, preventing single-quotes. They aren't inserting passwords into a database without a SQL placeholder, right? Nearly every site on that list has a needlessly short maximum password size. If they're storing passwords correctly, there's no need for this. This post will go through a few bad ways to store a password and you can see what I mean....
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| | blog.basistheory.com
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| | A deep dive into the fundamentals of data encryption, from symmetric vs. asymmetric algorithms to encryption at rest and in transit.
| | shazow.net
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| [AI summary] A guide on how to safely change a password manager's master password by generating high-entropy phrases and testing them for memorization.