Re:Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
by brazzy on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @03:22PM
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NIST only changed that recommendation last year. Expect that update to take at least 10 years to percolate through institutions like banks.
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Re:Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
by GuB-42 on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @03:54PM
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This recommendation dates back from 2017.
> Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator.
8 years later, no one seems to care. Other things that the NIST doesn't recommend is rules such as "letters + numbers + special characters". What it does recommend is checking for known weak passwords, such as passwords that are present in dictionaries and leaks or relate to the user name.
Here is the relevant document: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
Re:Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
by jermaustin1 on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @04:00PM
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And expect people to still implement it in the future, based on documentation from some consultancy that hasn't disseminated the new recommendation internally to their implementation engineers.