You have to balance security with usability. Most users aren't gonna understand the flow of getting a randomly generated password, and they're just gonna write it down if they do. This is a delicate balance that all cybersec people know.
I’m aware of the balancing act. I just thought it was an interesting opinion piece that I myself don’t quite share. My words [will always be bracketed] to tell the difference. Thanks for offering a counter argument to this article!
I mean I was just offering my response. But I'll be sure to remember this one random guy will put his words in [brackets]
I was responding based on the community you’re in. I’m now assuming you are seeing this from either local feed, or subscribed. If that’s the case, then I understand the confusion.
I wasn’t intending to give off hostility in my words. If that’s what you interpreted, my bad for phrasing it poorly.
Passwords are a very simple system that has been used since antiquity, its distribution in the Roman military having been described by Polybius.
Passwords found use in early computing. The Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) developed at MIT in 1961 implemented a PASSWORD command, which only hid the characters to be typed.
The notion of hashing passwords was created in the early 1970s by Robert Morris. He also invented the crypt(3) algorithm, which used a 12-bit salt and invoked a modified form of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm 25 times to reduce risk of pre-computed dictionary attacks.
The ease of implementation is why password-based authentication is used everywhere. But I might argue this is too simple and can be exploited by attackers. Year after year, a new hashing algorithm becomes considered not secure enough.
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