PasswordsCon·57 min
Tim Cappalli · Andrew Shikiar · Christiaan J Brand
Industry panelists discuss how FIDO standards and passkeys aim to replace passwords through better usability.
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Browse DEF CON 34Las Vegas, USA · August 2022 · 13 talks
PasswordsCon talks from BSides Las Vegas 2022.
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PasswordsCon·57 min
Tim Cappalli · Andrew Shikiar · Christiaan J Brand
Industry panelists discuss how FIDO standards and passkeys aim to replace passwords through better usability.
PasswordsCon·29 min
Steve Thomas
Introduces a password hashing function designed to resist GPU cracking through cache-hard memory lookups.
PasswordsCon·44 min
Jeffrey P Goldberg
Explores how a password manager could study user password habits while protecting individual data with privacy techniques.
PasswordsCon·1 hr 57 min
Jim Fenton
Explains how activation secrets for multi-factor authenticators differ from passwords in threats, limits and design.
PasswordsCon·1 hr 4 min
Per Thorsheim
Examines the ethics of cracking leaked passwords and a group threat model showing which attacks length and complexity actually stop.
PasswordsCon·43 min
Cecilie Wian
Explains why staff resist password managers and how empathy and gentle onboarding can win them over.
PasswordsCon·32 min
Christiaan J Brand
Traces how passkeys grew out of FIDO security keys into synced, phishing-resistant credentials meant to replace passwords.
PasswordsCon·25 min
Per Thorsheim
Shows how password survey questions get misread, and why people's answers about accounts and PINs fall short.
PasswordsCon·43 min
Mathew Woodyard
Shows how credential stuffing reaches login flows and which identity-layer controls, such as breach detection and bot defense, blunt it.
PasswordsCon·47 min
Susan Paskey
Shows how to threat hunt MFA logs for rogue devices, shared phones and suspicious login reports.
PasswordsCon·43 min
Dimitri Fousekis · Ethan Crane
Shows how transliteration, keyboard layout mismatches and emoji substitution create wordlists for cracking non-English passwords.
PasswordsCon·52 min
Mia Landsem
Explains why children ignore standard password advice and how streaks, gaming and sharing habits shape their security choices.
PasswordsCon·31 min
Jeremy Brown
Works through the math of password length and hash cracking to argue that 15 random characters can be enough.