• Extras@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

    Yeah knew a guy that used to work at a place where they had him change his password every 2 months or so kinda stupid. Entropy is really all you need to check. Also by special phrases do you mean salting peppering your passwords?

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        10 months ago

        The peppering passwords? That’s where you add a special word or phrase in all of your passwords but not in your password manager. It’s usually done in case your password manager becomes compromised thats why I got a bit confused with your statement, haha

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      10 months ago

      Salting and peppering isn’t something you do; it’s something the site does prior to hashing your password and storing the hash.

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        10 months ago

        Yes you’re correct but what I was referring to was using an extra string of characters to protect against a compromised password manager

        Edit: Here’s a link to bitwarden’s website that further clarifies what I meant