[Discuss] Password managers

Kent Borg kentborg at borg.org
Wed May 6 13:05:58 EDT 2020


On 5/6/20 11:16 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 2020 10:09:30 -0400
> Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
>
>> And for one that is reused...doesn't matter so much. All your uses
>> are as weak as the weakest site to which you have given that password.
> Which is why 16+ random characters never reused.

Except 16+ is overkill for a password. (*Password*, not encryption 
passphrase--the two are extremely different uses.)

-kb


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