[Nottingham] All your passwords are belong to them

[Martin]

On 16/04/2019 11:19, VM via Nottingham wrote:
> haha. that password featured in many password leaks and is now probably
> No 3 in dictionaries after 123456 and Password1.
> I think it's really a problem if unencrypted hashes have been stolen in
> which case all users are screwed regardless of their password complexity.
> 
> On 16 April 2019 10:37:27 BST, J via Nottingham
> <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>     Hello folks,
> 
>     I thought I would terrify everyone with some figures I have recently
>     come across.

Thanks Jason, a fun find...

Just wait until Quantum machines become reality...

(Yes, bad puns all round on that one :-P )


So... On the clouds with your hashed password/passphrase stored in a
database alongside millions of others, accessible to whatever cloudy
software cloudy beyond your control... It is...

GAME OVER?


There must be a better way than the far-too-long pain of typing
passwords and passphrases?

"HALT! Who goes there?!" is a relic from the medieval days!

So what is practical (and open or even FLOSS open) instead?


Cheers,
Martin