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Re:Partial password usability sucks by xyzzyz on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:01PM (#19322201)
The answer in your [0] link is pretty uninformed. The author admits in comments that they never heard about Shamir's secret sharing.

But yes, all of the points raised in the answers [1] are totally valid. The extra security benefit is so small that really not worth the negative impact on usability. System designers should rather focus more on implementing 2FA.

Re:Partial password usability sucks by xigency on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:43PM (#19322552)
It took me a little bit to find the explanation for this scheme: https://web.archive.org/web/20160909032102/https://smartarch...