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OliverM
on June 2, 2017
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Wouldn't it be easer to just test the submitted password against the 10,000 most common passwords directly, and refuse it then?
proaralyst
on June 2, 2017
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Which they already do; from the post:
> Users cannot use any password matching a blacklist of the 10,000 most commonly used passwords.
git_SHA
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I read the post but somehow missed that. Sincere apologies.
infogulch
on June 2, 2017
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My question is, is 10k good enough? Wouldn't it be better to check against more? 50k?
gwern
on June 2, 2017
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Presumably more is always better, but there's a very long tail of passwords so the hit rate will drop off a cliff, and now you're storing 5x as much data for increasingly questionable benefit.
codinghorror
on June 2, 2017
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the problem is once you get to 10+ char passwords the common password list gets really tiny
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