Chapter 9
- What is a password manager? What problems does it help people solve?
A password manager stores passwords for different services in an encrypted vault. It helps solve the problem of password reuse. (Section: Password managers)
- What is multifactor authentication?
Multifactor authentication refers to using two or more of the following categories to identify a user: something you know, something you have, and something you are. (Section: Multifactor authentication)
- Explain why password length is important.
Each additional character in a password raises the effort required to crack the password using brute-force methods exponentially. (Section: Password complexity and why it matters)
- Explain why password complexity is important.
Adding additional types of characters helps to increase the number of possibilities for the characters in a password, making it more difficult to crack using brute-force methods. (Section: Password...
