Re:A plastic card for easy to remember strong passwords
by cplease on Saturday January 10, 2015 @05:57PM
(#8868255)
> Then again, when a password fails, then all you'd have to do is retry with a safer version
And after three or five failed login attempts you get locked out and have to call the bank for a password reset, and throw away the damn card in frustration.
> (and maybe only have two password kinds, for convenience - full-blown char support, and minimalistic lowercase-letters only, so you'd only have to retry a single time after the first failed login).
If you're authenticating with more than HN and Reddit, you'll encounter much more than two mutually exclusive password policies.
And after three or five failed login attempts you get locked out and have to call the bank for a password reset, and throw away the damn card in frustration.
> (and maybe only have two password kinds, for convenience - full-blown char support, and minimalistic lowercase-letters only, so you'd only have to retry a single time after the first failed login).
If you're authenticating with more than HN and Reddit, you'll encounter much more than two mutually exclusive password policies.