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- From: nelsonm@leela.cs.orst.edu (Michael Nelson)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Crypt should be based on MD5 (was: the Crypt 16 discussion)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.203746.10010@leela.cs.orst.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 20:37:46 GMT
- Article-I.D.: leela.1992Jul22.203746.10010
- References: <2a510a22@babyoil.ftp.com> <709960260@romeo.cs.duke.edu> <PMETZGER.92Jul8120712@snark.shearson.com> <21106@rpp386.lonestar.org> <1992Jul9.035150.3220@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <62451@cup.portal.com>
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- In <62451@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
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- >Has anyone shown that forcing users to change passwords every so often
- >actually makes things more secure? Isn't frequent changing of passwords
- >just going to make it more likely that users will write down the passwords
- >somewhere?
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- I have a real example of how changing the password very month can
- lower security.
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- I have a friend that has to change the password every month, and can't
- reuse passwords.
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- His solution was simple. 91Jan 91Mar 91Apr and so on.
-
- >--Tim Smith
-