[Cryptography] Secure password verifiers (Re: Passwords (Smallest feasible work factor today?))

[Nico Williams]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 10:50:45PM -0500, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Nico Williams <nico at cryptonector.com> said:
> >With verifiers not subject to offline dictionary attack and a
> >sufficiently low trial rate the acceptable password complexity can be
> >quite low.
> 
> Sure.  That's why your bank card has a four-digit PIN.  Given how long it
> takes for each attempt, that's good enough.

Right.  Now if only we could get this to be so for all passwords at all
sites!

Nico
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