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Mobile App Password Complexity and Correct Horse Battery Staple
Mobile App Password Complexity and Correct Horse Battery Staple
- Advising mobile app developers on password requirements using the correct horse battery staple concept.
User-Friendly Security
- On October 8, 2024, I urged fellow Flutter and mobile developers to consider password entry friction.
- I advised understanding the "correct horse battery staple" strategy (using multiple common words for high entropy but easy typing).
- I argued that forcing mobile users to enter complex passwords with mixed cases and special symbols is cruel and unnecessary.
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