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Message-ID: <44276617.4010204@mynetsec.com>
Date: Mon Mar 27 05:16:03 2006
From: gareth.davies at mynetsec.com (Gareth Davies)
Subject: guidelines for good password
policy and maintenance
/ user centric identity with single passwords (or a small number
at most over time)
Anders B Jansson wrote:
> Biometrics fail as been shown several times before.
> Biometrics require that there's no way of obtaining that information
> from the user,
> or that there's no way to enter this data without the actual user
> being present.
>
> And even then they fail the actual user has a gun at his temple.
>
> </esoteric rant>
Then we need to return to the old mainframe concept of duress alarms
(login with a * at the end or alternate login for situations when you
are under duress).
The oldskool ;)
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Gareth Davies - BS7799 LA, OPST
Manager - Security Practice
Network Security Solutions MSC Sdn. Bhd.
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