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[โ€“] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah knew a guy that used to work at a place where they had him change his password every 2 months or so kinda stupid. Entropy is really all you need to check. Also by special phrases do you mean ~~salting~~ peppering your passwords?

[โ€“] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The peppering passwords? That's where you add a special word or phrase in all of your passwords but not in your password manager. It's usually done in case your password manager becomes compromised thats why I got a bit confused with your statement, haha

Yes, or a general way of putting it anyways.

[โ€“] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Salting and peppering isn't something you do; it's something the site does prior to hashing your password and storing the hash.

[โ€“] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes you're correct but what I was referring to was using an extra string of characters to protect against a compromised password manager

Edit: Here's a link to bitwarden's website that further clarifies what I meant