• oatmilkmaid@possumpat.io
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    1 year ago

    Bitwarden all day every day. I don’t even know any of my passwords because they’re all randomly generated. Try to guess my password now hacker man

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        1 year ago

        Is there a legitimate reason to use 20 characters over 16? Genuinely asking. Bitwarden considers them both “strong”, taking centuries to crack.

        • Siors@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Well the more characters you have the higher the entropy of the password and the harder it would be to crack. So when you don’t have to remember the password yourself there’s no reason not to use a very long password if the service you’re using allows it.

          • Coreidan@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Except no one cracks passwords. Vast majority of hacks is through social networking and trojans. The days of password cracking are long over especially considering most services lock you out after several failed attempts.

            The main argument for using a password manager is so you can have a different password for every service. This way if they manage to obtain one password they can’t access everything.

            It also makes rotating passwords a lot easier so that way you’re not using the same password forever. If your password gets out hopefully it’s changed before they use it.

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              1 year ago

              Offline password cracking is still very much a thing. They steal the entire password database then crack it offline at their leisure, not live against the regular login.

              Several measures are required to defend against this:

              • Hash seeds defend against rainbow tables.
              • Password length & complexity as well as using computationally-intensive hash algorithms defend against the brute-force cracking.
              • Password managers help with length and complexity, sad well as promote not reusing passwords.
    • CaptFeather@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I use Bitwarden!! It’s great cause I have a long complicated password to access the vault (my phone will do it by fingerprint though) but it’s the only password I need to actually memorize. Don’t know how someone can be secure without one nowadays, way too many services