Friday, August 04, 2017

Identity : Breached passwords

Troy Hunt has an interesting feature over on Introducing 306 million freely downloadable pwned passwords.

All the passwords that have been in a breach are searchable.

If there is a hit, it's either out there or someone else make the same password selection as you did (decreasing security).

But there's also a section on how to utilise this for Identity Management.

When you ask the user to select a password, check it against this list and reject if there is a hit.

Azure AD uses a similar approach where they reject all "common" passwords.

Enjoy!

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