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Jan 25, 2017

SN596: Password Complexity Calculations

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This week, Leo and I discuss how, while still on probation Symantec issues additional invalid certificates, Tavis Ormandy finds a very troubling problem in Cisco's Web conferencing extension for Chrome, yesterday's more-important-than-usual update to iOS, renewed concerns about LastPass metadata leakage, the SEC looks askance at what's left of Yahoo, a troubling browser form auto-fill information leakage, Tor further hides its hidden services, China orbits a source of entangles photons?, Heartbleed three years later, a new take on compelling fingerprints, approaching the biggest Pwn2Own ever, some miscellany... and some tricks for computing password digit and bit complexity equivalence.

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