UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on IoT devices

Re:UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on ... by timthorn on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @11:48AM (#40212385)

The PSTI Regulations that the bill gives legal effect to are here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1007/schedule/1/mad...

  (2) Passwords must be—
   (a)unique per product; or
   (b)defined by the user of the product.
  (3) Passwords which are unique per product must not be—
   (a)based on incremental counters;
   (b)based on or derived from publicly available information;
   (c)based on or derived from unique product identifiers, such as serial numbers, unless this is done using an encryption method, or keyed hashing algorithm, that is accepted as part of good industry practice;
   (d)otherwise guessable in a manner unacceptable as part of good industry practice.

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Re:UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on ... by wolverine876 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:16PM (#40237952)

Also:

  “unique per product” means unique for each individual product
  of a given product class or type.

Overall, why not just require random passwords of a certain length? Compared to generating a hash, generating a random password is easier (no data input, such as the serial number, is needed) and no less user-friendly.

Or, define it in terms of entropy? Maybe that kind of technicality is too hard to understand.

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