Safe passwords
Safe passwords
Funny thing at work, I was handling some legacy users - we need to make sure that on the next login, if they have a weak password, they have to change it.
So the whole day I'm typing "123" as a password, 123 123 123 123 all good. So finally I'm done and now I'm testing it, and accidentally I type 1234 instead of just 123. Doesn't really matter, either is "weak", so I just click "Login".
Then goes Chrome, "1234 is known as a weak password, found in breaches, you should change it".
So TIL 123 is still good.
1234? That's amazing! I have the same combination on my luggage!
123456? That’s amazing! I have the same combination on my luggage!
6969 ftw
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Where I work, the infra folks are way overworked. Getting them to do things is impossible given their existing todo list. And when you do get them to do something (by throwing managers at them) they half-ass it.
(I'm not blaming them. I blame the managers. It is frustrating though. Anyway.)
And as a result, there's one system that I use frequently that they set up, but cut corners and never hooked it up to our single sign-on solution. And so in order to get into this system, everyone has to use a shared username/password. "readonly:readonly". And every time I log in, my browser nags me about the known weak password.
So, is the account actually read-only?
I'm not sure I've ever tried to do any write operations. I'm honestly not even sure the service behind that login page offers any write operations. I might have to check sometime. I'm curious.
No, only the password is.
Everyone post your favorite strong password!
I always go with password2 cuz everyone throws a fit about password1 being insecure.
Bananabananabananaterracottabananaterracottaterracottapie
Vicinity of obscenity in your eyes
Longing. Rusted. Seventeen. Daybreak. Furnace. Nine. Benign. Homecoming. One. Freight car.
hunter2
Correct.staple.horse.battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpLx_2YiA7Q my personal favorites
Chuck NorrisYou kid but Zxcvbn deems it an OK enough password (3/4):
asd
travesty1$urged3$Lofty$Suggest$2doric$altitude3$napping5$herman$1Discuss$alton2$tripe0$Energize$Lumber$yank2$console7
How does the system know that an already-established password is weak if not in plain text? Or are you saying you have a set of passwords, each of which have gone through the same cipher algorithm, and see if there are any matches?
On browser side implementations or extensions, they can see the input into the form field. As for plain text, generally sites will send the plaintext password over HTTPS when logging in, and it's the server side which hashes/salts, and compares to the value in the DB. Sites can reject or inform users to bad passwords this way, generally when changing the password. Cloudflare does offer a product to do this for sites to add warnings to the user if the credentials were found in a breach. More information on that here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/privacy-preserving-compromised-credential-checking/
Password strength is usually checked inside your browser, not on the server.
When setting it, sure. But if we're talking about next login, that would imply we're talking about passwords established in the database/server.
Then again, you do have that plaintext password available when it's entered. Rather than checking what's in the database, you could see what's in the form that just triggered a successful login. That's not as scary
You would have the plaintext password at login time based on the users input. I'm guessing that's why it happens at login time rather than proactively asking people to update their passwords.
I bet that 1234 is used more often because of the 4-character minimum, like PIN codes on debit cards. It's 4 characters so it's safe. 123, on the other hand, is not safe, because it is 3 characters. /s
My solar inverter admin interface has a certain 4-digit password. So I wanted to change it to secure it, and found out that it only allows 4-digit passwords. Luckily the access point can be set up with a higher entropy password though (it is constantly advertised and had a very "secure" 8-digit password by default, I think you can guess which one)
55378008?
So my luggage is still safe.
My guess would be that the password checking feature has a minimum character limit of 4 characters, to avoid false positives on things that aren't actually passwords.