Fantastic passwords and where to find them - at NoRuKo

The humble password is broken. The internet is littered with poor security practices and password breaches, but the world is not ready to go password free yet. So what can we do to protect our users?

Let's take a look at how we currently protect passwords, at what we can throw away from those processes and what we can bring in to strengthen our users' passwords. Together we can move the world from "password1" to "correct horse battery staple" and beyond!

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Links:

How to Encourage Stronger Passwords: P1e@$e $t0p Using Bad Rules: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2018/05/encourage-stronger-passwords-stop-using-bad-password-rules.html
Better passwords in Ruby applications with the Pwned Passwords API:
https://www.twilio.com/blog/2018/03/better-passwords-in-ruby-applications-pwned-passwords-api.html
Round up: Libraries for checking Pwned Passwords in your 7 favorite languages: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2018/06/round-up-libraries-for-checking-pwned-passwords-in-your-7-favorite-languages.html

1,464 Western Australian government officials used ‘Password123’ as their password. Cool, cool: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/22/western-australian-government-officials-used-password-their-password-cool-cool/

Gems:

No BS Password checker: https://github.com/cmer/nobspw
zxcvbn-js: https://github.com/envato/zxcvbn
strong_password: https://github.com/bdmac/strong_password

Pwned: https://github.com/philnash/pwned
devise-pwned_password: https://github.com/michaelbanfield/devise-pwned_password

Transcript

1. FANTASTIC PASSWORDS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM @philnash
2. Phil Nash @philnash @phil_nash https://philna.sh philnash@twilio.com
3. My first password: “nash” “atom” @philnash
4. I GOT HACKED @philnash
5. PASSWORDS ARE TERRIBLE @philnash
6. GUIDELINES @philnash
7. Guidelines • Uppercase • Lowercase • Numbers • Special characters @philnash
8. password @philnash
9. Password1! @philnash
10. Guidelines Change passwords regularly @philnash
11. Password123! @philnash
12. PATTERNS @philnash
13. Password1! @philnash
14. ULLLLLLLDS @philnash
15. AN EXAMPLE @philnash
16. Western Australia Government Security Audit 234,000 passwords were assessed 1/4 of passwords were deemed "weak" passwords 1,464 passwords were "Password123" (source) @philnash
17. Western Australia Government Security Audit @philnash
18. My "best" password • 8 characters long • Numbers and letters (uppercase only) • Model number of my hi-fi @philnash
19. I GOT HACKED @philnash
20. REPETITION @philnash
21. BREACHES @philnash
22. @philnash
23. HOW DO WE FIX THIS? @philnash
24. THE GUIDELINES WERE WRONG @philnash
25. @philnash
26. New guidelines From the ACSC, the NCSC and NIST • At least 13 characters • Accept all characters • Don't allow insecure passwords • Dictionary words • Repeated or sequential characters (e.g. ‘aaaaaa’, ‘1234abcd’) • Context specific words (e.g. username, email, app name) • Passwords that have been in a breach @philnash
27. IN RUBY? @philnash
28. Devise config.password_length = 6..128 @philnash
29. Authlogic validates :password, confirmation: { if: require_password? }, length: { minimum: 8, if: require_password? } 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. @philnash
30. Clearance # Nothing @philnash
31. Suggestions validates :password, length: { minimum: 14 } nobspw strong_password zxcvbn @philnash
32. nobspw pwc = NOBSPW::PasswordChecker.new password: 'philnashrules', name: 'Phil Nash', username: 'philnash', email: 'philnash@twilio.com' pwc.strong? pwc.weak? pwd.weak_password_reasons 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. @philnash
33. zxcvbn test = Zxcvbn.test("philnashrules", ["philnash"]) test.score test.feedback.suggestions 01. 02. 03. @philnash
34. DEMO @philnash
35. INSECURE PASSWORDS? @philnash
36. PWNED PASSWORDS @philnash
37. Pwned Passwords 572,611,621 passwords previously exposed in data breaches @philnash
38. Pwned Passwords API ⚠ Don't worry ⚠ @philnash
39. Pwned Passwords API 1. Get the SHA1 hash of the password 2. Take the first 5 characters of the hash 3. https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/#{prefix} 4. Check if the remainder of the hash is in the result @philnash
40. PWNED GEM @philnash
41. DEMO @philnash
42. Pwned https://github.com/philnash/pwned devise-pwned_password @philnash
43. NEXT LEVEL @philnash
44. TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION @philnash
45. PASSWORDS ARE TERRIBLE @philnash
46. PASSWORD GUIDELINES ARE WORSE @philnash
47. MAKE PASSWORDS LONGER @philnash
48. CHECK AGAINST BREACHES AND DICTIONARIES @philnash
49. IMPLEMENT TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION @philnash
50. Thanks! @philnash @phil_nash https://philna.sh philnash@twilio.com
51. Tom Carr @ItsMeTomC "Your password must contain at least 8 letters, a capital, a plot, a protagonist with good character development, a twist & a happy ending." 1156 PM · Oct 13, 2014 3.3K 4.7K people are Tweeting about this @philnash