{"id":431,"date":"2014-05-29T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2014-05-29T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T16:14:48","slug":"a-great-password-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"A Great Password Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to\u00a0<a title=\"Strong passwords\" href=\"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/?p=421\">my previous blog post on strong passwords<\/a>, a friend pointed out <a title=\"Stanford's password policy\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2014\/04\/stanfords-password-policy-shuns-one-size-fits-all-security\/\">Stanford&#8217;s new password policy<\/a>, which I quite like and thought worth sharing. This policy plays off probabilities, meaning that if you decrease the number of total characters in your password (decreasing the total permutations), you must use more character types instead (increasing the total permutations).<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Stanford password policy\" href=\"http:\/\/itservices.stanford.edu\/service\/accounts\/passwords\/quickguide\">policy<\/a> breaks requirements into 4 tiers by password length:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;8-11: requires mixed case letters, numbers, and symbols<\/li>\n<li>12-15: requires mixed case letters and numbers<\/li>\n<li>16-19: requires mixed case letters<\/li>\n<li>20+: any characters you like!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This policy is also mobile friendly, as it&#8217;s much easier to type a bunch of letters on a phone than a few random symbols.<\/p>\n<p>I find the policy flexible and accessible and I hope it helps improve your understanding of how to make a strong password.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_432\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_432\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 970px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pwstrength.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-432\" alt=\"Stanford IT Services. http:\/\/itservices.stanford.edu\/service\/accounts\/passwords\/quickguide\" src=\"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pwstrength.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pwstrength.jpg 960w, https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pwstrength-96x300.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanford IT Services. http:\/\/itservices.stanford.edu\/service\/accounts\/passwords\/quickguide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to\u00a0my previous blog post on strong passwords, a friend pointed out Stanford&#8217;s new password policy, which I quite like and thought worth sharing. This policy plays off probabilities, meaning that if you decrease the number of total characters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/?p=431\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dataabinitio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}