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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Amicitas to c/technology

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Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.

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[–] TBi 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My company blocked ssh keys in favour of password + 2FA. Honestly I don’t mind the 2FA since we use yubikeys, but wouldn’t ssh key + 2FA be better?

[–] jj4211 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All well and good when ssh activity is anchored in a human doing interactive stuff, but not as helpful when there's a lot of headless automation that has to get from point a to point b.

[–] TBi 3 points 2 months ago

Yep. All the headless automation broke…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Just store your keys on the yubikey. Problem solved.

Or use a smart card profile and go that route.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We use keys + Yubikey 2FA (the long alphanumeric strings when you touch the Yubikey) at work, alhough they want to move all 2FA to Yubikey FIDO2/WebAuthn in the future since regular numeric/text 2FA codes are vulnerable to phishing. All our internal webapps already require FIDO2, as does our email (Microsoft 365).