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Does Windows 11 PIN Behavior Break Password Security Conventions?
There is one case when knowing the PIN length helps the attacker: if your PIN is in the list of most common PINs then it helps the attacker narrow down the PINs to try, and possibly find the right one ...
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What is the logic of using numbers for Windows PIN?
PINs are widely known (pretty much everybody has a PIN-protected bank card or smartphone), easy to remember and convenient to type in. So it makes sense to offer this as an authentication option.
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Does Windows 11 PIN Behavior Break Password Security Conventions?
PINs are already much "weaker" in that sense than best-practice passphrases should be. Yes, it's true that leaking the length of the PIN weakens it somewhat. Encouraging users to pick 4- or ...
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Does Windows 11 PIN Behavior Break Password Security Conventions?
You are trying to compare a password and a PIN. PIN security conventions are that PIN lengths are not a secret. Password conventions are that a password length should be secret (with mins and maximums ...
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Does Windows 11 PIN Behavior Break Password Security Conventions?
Hiding the length of a PIN is only security through obscurity, which doesn’t really add much anyway, considering that a 4-digit PIN has 10,000 combinations (a 6-digit 1,000,000, and an 8-digit a ...
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